Using the adapter

Use the COM Automation adapter to encapsulate your technology in a more object-oriented way and use your objects in a natural way.

The COM Automation adapter adheres to the semantics of the automation interface, IDispatch. This allows the user to provide a custom, in-house solution or service for nearly any integration requirement and then access that service from within IBM Transformation Extender (in other words, the adapter can then be thought of as a conduit to this component).

At design time, the user:

• Runs the importer selecting the component to use in a map.
• Selects one or more methods to execute on that component.

At map runtime, the adapter:

• Creates an instance of the specified component. The user specifies which component to use when running the importer.
• Calls the method(s) that the user specified in the importer.
• Frees the component.