Designing XAI Adapters

The product provides a set of adapters to process your XML requests. The adapters point to a specific Java class that renders a service. If you find that you need to use a protocol, which is not supported by the adapters provided, you will need to add a new XAI Class (which points to a Java class) and a new XAI Adapter. It is recommended that your implementers contact customer support. The following adapter classes are provided.

• BASEADA: This is the core adapter class that provides access to any published system service. This adapter accesses system objects through the page server. Services with this adapter need to indicate the object (application service), which should be invoked.
• BUSINESSADA: This is the core adapter class that provides access to schema-based objects. This adapter accesses business objects, business services and service scripts through their schema API. Services with this adapter need to indicate the schema of the object, which should be invoked. When communicating to these objects, it is not necessary to create XAI schemas for the schemas associated with the objects. XAI is able to directly communicate with these objects using their existing schema definitions. As a result, there is no need to use the XAI schema editor when defining XAI Inbound Services for this new adapter.
• STGUPADA: This staging upload adapter class is used when an extra step is required prior to using a service with the core adapter. For example, perhaps you need to read a file, which is not in XML format, and convert it to an XML format recognized by the system. Services with this type of adapter do not need to indicate an application service but must indicate information about the file to be converted. Refer to XAI Staging Control for more information.
• LDAPIMPRTADA: This is a special adapter that is used when importing Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) objects into the system. If your organization uses LDAP, you can import your existing LDAP users and groups into your product, so that you do not need to define them twice. The adaptor can process search, validate and import XML requests. Refer to Importing Users and Groups for more information.
• XAICMNDADA: This is an internal adapter. It is used to send commands to the XAI Server.
• SIEBELADA: This adapter acts as a gateway between Siebel Virtual Business Components (VBC) and the system XAI services. The adapter understands the Siebel XML Gateway Message format, translates the message into an XAI message, executes the request and translates the result into a message format expected by the Siebel XML Gateway.