The capabilities of a connector are exposed to a message
flow in a user-defined node. Before you can use that user-defined
node, you must install it into your IBM® App Connect Enterprise
Toolkit.
About this task
Connectors can be used in IBM App Connect Enterprise to
interact with applications or data sources. A connector developer
creates a connector for the runtime environment and a user-defined
node for the IBM App Connect Enterprise
Toolkit. The connector
developer provides this user-defined node in a plug-in JAR file. You
can develop message flows by using the user-defined node in the same
way as the built-in nodes.
Procedure
To install the user-defined node into your IBM App Connect Enterprise
Toolkit, complete the following steps:
- Copy the user-defined node plug-in JAR file into the dropins folder
in your IBM App Connect Enterprise
Toolkit installation location: install_dir/tools/dropins.
For example, the default installation directory on Windows is C:\Program
Files\IBM\IIB\version\.
- To ensure that the new files are available to the IBM App Connect Enterprise
Toolkit, restart the Toolkit.
Results
The user-defined node for your connector is displayed in the
palette in the Message Flow editor. If the connector developer specified
a category in the user-defined node project, the user-defined node
is displayed beneath that category.
What to do next
Add the user-defined node to a message flow by following
the instructions in Adding a message flow node.