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Deploying a stand-alone adapter

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You deploy a stand-alone adapter to an application cluster. Then, application adapter bindings and related Java™ Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) services can refer to it.

Before you begin

So that you can deploy a stand-alone adapter, complete the following steps when you create an adapter import or export at development time:
  1. Set this value in the configuration properties window to enable a stand-alone adapter. In the Deploy connector project properties list, select On server for use by multiple applications.
  2. When you export the application, review the dependencies settings in IBM® Integration Designer for the module. Deploy with module under Java EE must be unchecked for the dependent RAR file modules associated with a stand-alone adapter.
  3. Ask an administrator to set up the RAR file on the application server.

About this task

At deployment time, an administrator installs the adapter RAR file on each node of the application server cluster and configures some properties.

Procedure

To deploy a stand-alone adapter, complete the following steps:

  1. Locate the RAR file for the adapter you want to use and that it is accessible by the administration console. Look for the adapter RAR files in your Integration Designer installation at the following path, which is where they are typically located: install_root/ResourceAdapters/adapter_name/adapter.rar
  2. In the Integrated Solutions console, go to the resource adapters section and click Resources > Resource Adapters.
  3. Select Install RAR.
  4. Select a node that contains an application cluster member and browse for the RAR file identified in the first step.
    Note: The RAR file must be installed on each node that contains a cluster member.
  5. Click OK and save your changes.
  6. Repeat steps 3-5 until the RAR file is installed on every node that contains an application cluster member.
  7. Change the scope of the Resource Adapters page to that of the application cluster and select New.
  8. Add a name. For Archive Path, choose the RAR file you installed.
  9. Set the custom properties that you want under Additional Properties. See specific adapter documentation for more details about individual configuration properties.
    Note: If you run multiple instances of the same adapter, ensure that the first seven characters of the adapter ID property are unique for each instance. Then, you can correlate the log and trace information to a particular adapter instance.

Results

A stand-alone resource adapter is deployed to the application cluster scope for use with your application's adapter bindings.