Defining meta-data

The adapter for Lotus Domino is meta-data-driven. In the WebSphere business integration system, meta-data is defined as application-specific information exported by Lotus Domino that describes its data structures. The meta-data is used to construct business object definitions which the connector uses at run time to build business objects.

A meta-data-driven adapter handles each business object that it supports according to the meta-data encoded in the business object definition. This enables the adapter to handle new or modified business object definitions without requiring modifications to the code.

Application-specific meta-data includes the structure of the business object and the settings of its attribute properties. Actual data values for each business object are conveyed in message objects at run time.

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