A Gateway event provider is an optional mechanism to enable external events to trigger Gateway synchronizations to run and keep two applications in sync.
For example, consider a project in P6 modified by a user. Having a P6 event provider would generate an event for the change in the P6 project and automatically run a Gateway synchronization job to push these changes to another application that is integrated with P6.
Note: At run time, the project filter of the synchronization will be overwritten by the project information carried by the event, so that the right project would be pushed to the other side.
Developing an event provider for Primavera Gateway involves the following steps:
- Determining the type of event provider to create
- Creating the event provider java code and the event descriptor XML file
- Packaging the event provider