These release notes cover release information for WebSphere Business Integration Adapters, version 2.3.1, for Windows. They contain the following sections:
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.
This section lists the new features and improvements made in this release.
For details, refer to the Connector Development Guide for Java.
WebSphere Business Integration Adapters API
| CR number |
Description |
| 12271 | Support for a custom business object handler. A new interface, CWCustomBOHandlerInterface, has been added that has the method doVerbForCustom. Adapters using custom business object handlers must implement this interface. Also, the business object verb application-specific information must change so that CBOH=custom_BO_Handler_class_name (be sure to use the full path name, that is, begin the path with "com."). |
| 17975 | When catching a exception, WebSphere Business Integration Adapters API methods now log the exception message and print the stack trace. |
| 19664 |
A new property, EventStoreFactory, has been added. If it is set to the connector's event store factory instance, say, com.crossworlds.connectors.JDBC.JDBCEventStoreFactoryInstance, it is used to get the event store; if it is not set to that instance the API tries to build the event store factory instance class name based on the package information. Also, TRUESTRING and FALSESTRING have been added to CWConnectorAttrType, and hardcoded "true" strings have been replaced with this. |
| 19665 | If any data other than integer is specified for pollQuantity, pollForEvents returns a FAIL. |
| 19673 | A new method, getAppText, which takes in a delimiter and a property name, has been added to CWConnectorBusObj. Based on the property name and delimiter, the value for the property in the application-specific information is returned. |
| 22702 | A new method, setDEEId, has been added in CWConnectorBusObj class. It sets
the ObjectEventId attribute to the event ID: public void setDEEId(String eventid) returns AttributeNotFoundException, AttributeValueException. |
| 22877 | A new method, getEventStore, has been added to the CWConnectorAgent class.
This method gets the event store from the connector and returns a CWConnectorEventStore
object: public CWConnectorEventStore getEventStore() The default pollForEvents method has been changed to make a call to this method. Also, there is a default implementation for this method. It first looks at the EventStoreFactory property. The EventStoreFactory property must be set to the CWConnectorEventStoreFactory interface implementation. If it is, the instance of this class is built and gets the event store got from the connector. If the property is not set, the method tries to build the implementation name from the connector package. The connector has the option to override this method and provide its own. This is helpful if the connector wants to use constructors other than the default constructor. |
| 23369 | The APPRESPONSETIMEOUT from the doVerbFor method call does not terminate the connector when doVerbFor is called from within pollForEvents. To enable this, the status must be propagated up to pollforEvents and pollForEvents must return APPRESPONSETIMEOUT. |
| 23406 | The EXISTS and RETRIEVEBYCONTENT verb constants have been added to the CWConnectorConstants class. |
| 23612 | For application-specific information at the attribute or business object level, the tags that have no values such as ior_file_name=;poa_name=server failed with "No such element found Exception". This has been fixed. |
| 23620 | Setting the configuration meta-object and creating the data handler is not done in one atomic (or synchronized) step. This was causing problems with the data handler base class when multiple threads entered the WebSphere Business Integration Adapters API. The code to call setConfigMO is now synchronized. Also, the method is called only once, and the subsequent calls continue creating the data handler. |
Hardware and software requirements are included in the product documentation. See Installation, migration, upgrade, and configuration information for links to those guides.
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 migration, upgrade, and configuration information.
Make sure that you run adapters with WebSphere Business Integration Adapters (WBIA) API version 1.5.0 or later.
To check the version of WBIA API, 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 API.
To download the latest version of the WBIA API:
After you download and install the APIe, 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.sh
bin/CWODAEnv.sh
connectors/messages/CwConnectorAgentMessages.txt
To enable an adapter to work with various versions of ADK or InterChange Server, follow the appropriate procedure below:
In CWConnEnv.sh, set the CWVERSION variable to 4.X.
set CWVERSION="4.X"
In CWConnEnv.sh, set the CWVERSION variable to 4.1.X.
set CWVERSION="4.1.X"
In bin/CWODAEnv.sh, set the CWVERSION variable to 4.1.X.
set CWVERSION="4.1.X"
|
CR number |
Problem |
| 23373 | Running connectors built with version 2.1 of Connector Development Kit
(CDK) with the 2.3.1 CDK build returns run-time errors.
Workaround: Recompile the connectors with the 2.1 CDK patch. |
| 23374 | Running connectors built with version 2.0 of Connector Development Kit
(CDK) with the 2.3.1 CDK build returns run-time errors.
Workaround: Recompile the connectors with the 2.0 CDK patch. |
| 23482 |
Due to a WebSphere MQ limitation, adapters cannot write more than 100 MB of XML message text into an MQ queue for processing. This problem occurs when JMS is the transport and either WMQI or WAS is the integration broker. The adapter run time converts business objects into XML messages, which can become very large. Workaround: Avoid creating more than 25000 child objects per business object. |
| 24108 | Running connectors built with version 2.2 of Connector Development Kit (CDK) with the 2.3.1
CDK build returns run-time errors.
Workaround: Recompile connectors with the 2.2 CDK patch. |
|
CR number |
Description |
| 11983, 12221, 13382, 17788, 20169 | Multiple problems in version 4.2.1.0 of the Component Selection panel have
been fixed. They include:
|
| 20679 | If InterChange Server is your integration broker, make sure you install adapters from WebSphere Business Integration Adapters, version 2.3.1, in the directory where ICS is installed. |
| 19283 | See description above. |
| 22937 |
Due to adapter name changes, installing WebSphere Business Integration Adapters version 2.3.1 over 2.3.0 might result in redundant desktop shortcuts. For instance, the previous version of the Adapter for e-Mail created a shortcut named "EMail Connector". Upgrading the adapter to version 2.3.1 creates a new shortcut name, "e-Mail Connector". Workaround: Manually remove the old desktop shortcut to avoid confusion. For example, right-click Start > Open All Users. Navigate to Programs > IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapters > Adapters > Connectors, then delete the "EMail Connector" shortcut. |
| 23604 | The System Manager start script has an extra backslash ( \ ), which causes
System Manager to fail loading some of the tools plugin files.
Workaround: Manually remove the extra backslash ( \ ) in the startcsm.bat file, which is in the ProductDir\bin directory (where ProductDir is the directory in which you have installed the product). Modify the third line in the startcsm.bat file: set WSWB_PATH=C:\WebSphereAdapters\Tools\WSWB203\ by changing it to: set WSWB_PATH=C:\WebSphereAdapters\Tools\WSWB203 where C:\WebSphereAdapters\Tools\WSWB203 is the location of the WebSphere Studio Workbench 2.0.3 installation. |
| 24554 | When you run any uninstaller in locales other than English, the GUI might
display unreadable characters.
Workaround: Use a silent uninstall. From the command line, go the _uninstall directory, then enter the following command: java -cp ./uninstall.jar run -silent |
| CR number |
Problem |
| 23778 | The title text on the Language Selection panel might be truncated depending on the language locale you choose. The Language Selection dialog cannot be resized. |
| 24013 | If you are using the Simplified Chinese locale, Chinese characters cannot
be entered at Destination Panel input field.
Workarounds: You can use either of these workarounds
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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:
http://www.ibm.com/websphere/integration/wicserver/infocenter
http://www.ibm.com/websphere/integration/wbiadapters/infocenter
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.
