webMethods Adapters
Connect without coding.
Capabilities
Standard Adapter Framework
Quickly integrate your existing apps
Count on a consistent experience, no matter which adapter you use. A standard development framework and run-time infrastructure make it easy to come up to speed when using a new adapter. Because adapters are tightly integrated with webMethods Integration Server, you gain access to valuable features, such as logging and transaction management.
Fast start up
Working with webMethods Adapters is simple since it's metadata-driven. No coding's required for back-end integration. Using an Eclipse-based development environment, you can simply "point and click" to configure adapter service and adapter notifications.
Connection management
Configure and manage connections and settings from a single interface using the webMethods Adapters Framework. You’ll have the infrastructure to enable all adapter services and adapter notifications to securely and reliably connect to the appropriate application or other data source. For security and compliance purposes, the framework also provides centralized journal and audit logging capabilities so you can centrally track and monitor the health of the system, as well as who is accessing what application for compliance reporting.
Transaction management
The webMethods Adapters Framework supports multiple levels of transaction management—for example:
Local transactions, in which multiple actions on a resource are treated as a single unit and are all committed or rolled back together
Two-phase commit transactions, in which multiple actions across two or more resources are committed or rolled back together, depending on the successfulness of the transaction
Automatic commitment of transactions
Adapter notifications
For applications and data sources that offer event-driven actions, such as queuing systems, the webMethods Adapters Framework provides adapter notifications to notify the webMethods Integration Server when specified events occur in the adapter’s resource.
Adapter notifications can either poll a resource on a regular interval to determine whether an event has occurred. Or, they can “listen” for events, such as messages being delivered to a queue. Once an event is detected, webMethods Integration Server can process the event data and easily pass it along to the rest of your enterprise.
Standardized user interfaces
Enjoy a standardized user experience for both administrative and development tasks and a common set of interfaces to manage connections and other administrative functions.
Development APIs
Your legacy and homegrown applications weren’t necessarily built with integration in mind. The webMethods Adapter Development Kit makes it easy to develop adapters for these applications—and other applications without a standard interface for integration—to connect quickly to your SOA.
Service enablement
With the webMethods Adapters Framework, it’s easy to service-enable existing resources. Simply “point and click” to expose functionality of back-end applications and other data sources.
Adapter services are re-usable within the webMethods Integration Server to initiate and perform operations on the adapter’s resource, exposing the functionality and the data of that resource for use within your entire enterprise. These services can range from simple database queries to complex SAP BAPI transactions.
Salesforce.com adapter
If you’re integrating your internal applications with Salesforce.com, you’re faced with the new challenge of how to integrate Software as a Service (SaaS) applications with those you host in-house, such as SAP. Now you can achieve that integration quickly, reliably and worry-free using the webMethods Salesforce.com Adapter. This robust adapter lets you plug Salesforce.com into the webMethods Integration Service, our Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), without any coding. Out-of-the box features simplify your integration while giving you maximum flexibility and making optimal use of your resources.
Learn more in the fact sheet.
