Release Notes for Version 1.0.0 of the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for CORBA

These release notes cover release information for version 1.0.0 of the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for CORBA. They contain the following sections:
Features Limitations
Hardware and software requirements Known problems and workarounds
Installation and configuration information Documentation
WebSphere Business Integration Adapters API and run time

Note: Important information about this product may be available in Technical Support Flashes issued after these release notes were published. These can be found on the WebSphere Business Integration support Web site, http://www.ibm.com/websphere/integration/wbiserver/support. Select the component area of interest and search the flashes section.

Features

The Adapter for CORBA allows the integration broker to exchange business objects with applications, or CORBA objects, running on a CORBA server. It also allows CORBA objects to submit client requests against the adapter, in which case the connector runs as a CORBA server.

This adapter provides the following features:

Refer to the Adapter for CORBA User Guide for detailed information about the adapter and the new features.

Hardware and software requirements

Hardware and software requirements are included in the product documentation. See Installation and configuration information for links to those guides.

Installation and configuration information

Whether you are installing the software from the CD or downloading it from Passport Advantage and installing it from a local directory, refer to the appropriate guide:

These guides also include general configuration information.

For hardware and software requirements and configuration information specific to this adapter, refer to the Adapter for CORBA User Guide.

WebSphere Business Integration Adapters API and run time

Make sure that you run adapters with WebSphere Business Integration Adapters (WBIA) run-time version 1.5.0 or later.

Verifying the version of WBIA run time

To check the version of WBIA run time, locate the manifest file (ProductDir\lib\WBIA.jar) and open it in a suitable Java JAR editor. Look for the following lines:

Implementation-Title: "CWConnectorAPI"
Implementation-Version: 1.5.0
Implementation version indicates the current version of WBIA API.

If the version is not 1.5.0 or later, you must download the latest WBIA run time.

Downloading the WBIA run time

To download the latest version of the WBIA run time:

  1. Go to http://www.ibm.com.
  2. Click the Support and downloads tab.
  3. Under the Downloads heading, click All downloads & drivers.
  4. In the Enter search terms field, type "wbia api" and click Submit.

After you download and install the the run time, you should see the following files:

lib\WBIA.jar
lib\WBIA\3.0.0\WBIA.jar
lib\WBIA\4.0.0\WBIA.jar
lib\WBIA\4.1.1\WBIA.jar
bin\CWConnEnv.bat (Windows)
bin/CWConnEnv.sh (UNIX)
bin\CWODAEnv.bat (Windows)
bin/CWODAEnv.sh (UNIX)
connectors\messages\CwConnectorAgentMessages.txt

Enabling adapters for earlier versions of Adapter Development Kit and InterChange Server

To enable an adapter to work with various versions of ADK or InterChange Server, follow the appropriate procedure below:

InterChange Server versions 4.1.x (except 4.1.0), ADK version 2.1.x

Windows: In CWConnEnv.bat, set the CWVERSION variable to 4.1.X.

set CWVERSION="4.1.X"

UNIX: In CWConnEnv.sh, set the CWVERSION variable to 4.1.X.

set CWVERSION="4.1.X"
Running an Object Discovery Agent (ODA) against InterChange Server versions 4.1.x, ADK versions 2.1.x

Windows: In bin\CWODAEnv.bat, set the CWVERSION variable to 4.1.X.

set CWVERSION="4.1.X"

UNIX: In bin/CWODAEnv.sh, set the CWVERSION variable to 4.1.X.

set CWVERSION="4.1.X"

Limitations

The adpater for CORBA assumes an object request broker environment and supports Borland VisiBroker 4.5.1 with known limitations. You must install this ORB as part of your system configuration. Because Borland VisiBroker 4.5.1 cannot handle multibyte-encoded data as input to VisiBroker tools (except the ORB’s runtime data transport), the adapter’s Object Discovery Agent (ODA) can only accept input encoded in single byte. For this reason, IDL files and all associated files must be placed in a directory whose name does not contain multibyte characters anywhere in the path name. The IDL file itself also must not contain multibyte characters.

Known problems and workarounds

The following problems have been found in this release:

CR
number
Description
24268

The CORBA ODA outputs the messages, typically error messages, generated from the ODA-dependent tool, such as IDL2Java to the console output.


Documentation

Product documentation is not included as part of the product package, either by CD or electronic product distribution. The documentation for this product can be found in the following InfoCenters:

To obtain the product documentation, visit the Web site and download the current documentation set for the release that you are using. Follow the instructions provided on the InfoCenter page to complete the installation.

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