1. From the XI architecture, we can see Adapter Engine is a part of Integration Sever, and Adapter Engine comprises of Adapter Framework and Resource Adapters. Usually we say AE is based on AF.

NOTE:
a) Adapter Framework supports JCA (J2EE Connector Architecture) but is not based on it. In my opinion, Adapter Framework is an AOP(Aspect Oriented Programming) product like Microsoft .NET Enterprise Library which can provide lots of common functionalities like logging, security, cache, exception handling etc.
b) JCA is standard architecture for connecting the J2EE platform to EIS (Enterprise Infomation Systems) like DBMS, ERP etc. The resource adapters locate at Adapter Engine are software components based on JCA.
2. The steps a message interchanges from one EIS to another are:
EIS -> Adapter Engine (Specific Adapter -> [SOAP-XML] -> Module Processor -> messaging/queue) -> [SOAP-XML/HTTP] -> Integration Server (Pipeline Services - Receiver Identification-> Interface Identification -> Message Split -> Message Mapping -> Technical Routing -> Call Adapter) -> another EIS system.

3. Adapter Engine runs on J2EE platform but Integration Engine works on ABAP stack. In this case they share infomation via XI message not JRFC.

4. Adapters

本文详细解读了从XI架构中Adapter Engine组件及其组成部分,包括Adapter Framework与Resource Adapters的作用,以及消息交换流程从一个EIS到另一个EIS的过程。同时阐述了Adapter Engine运行在J2EE平台而Integration Engine则运行在ABAP堆栈上,两者通过XIM消息进行信息共享。本文深入探讨了适配器的概念与应用。
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