A Gateway provider can be associated with of one or more event listeners, where each event listener can be configured separately and trigger a separate synchronization. Configuration parameters can be defined at the provider level or at the listener level. The configuration parameters are defined to either request user input or provide opportunities for users to influence how the system works.
For example, for a P6 event provider, you must define parameters at the provider level to determine how to communicate with the JMS queue. There can be one listener defined for project data and another listener defined for master data. For the project data listener, you can define a parameter for the objects that should be monitored by this listener.
Note: Each event provider can be associated with only one event provider instance for each deployment of the same application. However, within the event provider instance, listener instances can be created for each listener.
The following artifacts have to be created and packaged for an event provider:
- Event Provider XML descriptor file
- Java class that implements EventProvider interface