Understanding Developing Connectors

You can produce new connectors in different ways, based on whether you want to create a listening connector or a target connector.

Listening connectors use standard connector interface and gateway services to link to the integration gateway. Although a Java interface object is not used for listening connectors, the listening connectors still must adhere to a standard scheme of logic to drive requests to, and to process responses from, the integration gateway.

Target connectors must implement a Java interface to become valid target connectors in the integration gateway. This ensures a standard interface for the gateway manager so that it can manage each target connector in a streamlined way.

To develop connectors, you:

1. Develop a connector class.

2. Install the connector class.

3. Register the connector.