Adapter Interactions with Integration Components

With so many components in a typical integration solution, there are times when interactions and collaboration between the integration components becomes a challenge. Without careful planning and proper architecture and design, adapters may not work with different parsers, integration brokers, or transformers. In fact, it is quite common for integration product vendors to constrain adapter developers by providing proprietary APIs that will work only with a limited set of integration components and technologies.

You need to pay extra attention to these potentially show-stopping problems. The best solution is to build or select a set of adapters that are not tied to any specific set of integration ...

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