You need to develop a General custom adapter to invoke and execute service components of a system containing protocols that are not supported with the following adapters provided with Service Platform:

• SOAP adapter
• Session Bean adapter
• MDB (WS-R) adapter
• MDB (DB queue) adapter
• DB adapter
• TP1 adapter
• File adapter
• Object Access adapter
• Message Queue adapter
• FTP adapter
• File operations adapter
• Mail adapter
• HTTP adapter

Service Platform provides a custom adapter development framework for easy development of a General custom adapter.

The following provides an overview of a General custom adapter and the custom adapter development framework.

Organization of this section

2.16.1 Overview of General custom adapters

2.16.2 Overview of the custom adapter development framework