Configuring an environment for developing and running custom integration applications

Prepare the environment in which you want to run your custom integration applications.

Before you begin

To develop and run Java™ applications that use the IBM® Integration API, you must install the following prerequisite software in your local computer environment:
  • An IBM Java Development Kit (JDK) at a supported Java level. Java support is defined in the IBM App Connect Enterprise system requirements; see IBM App Connect Enterprise system requirements.

    IBM App Connect Enterprise does not supply a JDK; you must acquire and install a suitable product yourself.

    You must use an IBM JDK to develop custom integration applications and an IBM Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to run these applications.

About this task

Follow the instructions for the appropriate environment:

You can also run custom integration applications, and therefore control one or more integration node components, from computers on which you have not installed IBM App Connect Enterprise. For more information, see Configuring environments without IBM App Connect Enterprise installed.