Retek adapter architecture overview

The Retek adapter uses Retek's proprietary messaging model, which defines the message structures for exchanging data between Retek applications and WebSphere InterChange Server (ICS), WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker (WMQI), or WebSphere Application Server (WAS).

The data is retrieved in the form of XML messages. An XML data handler is used to convert the data in business objects so that they can be processed. Retek business objects have a two-tiered architecture consisting of:

Retek's messaging model groups related messages into message families, with each message family being handled by a Message Family Manager (MFM) that contains specific APIs for event detection, notification, retrieval, and business object request processing. These include:

The following diagram shows the connector components and their relationships:

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