Overview

The work of transforming the command line and STDIN input to the appropriate protocol message falls to the connectors that are deployed in the UAC environment. The Universal Command Agent for SOA platform allows for the addition of connectors to support future business requirements.

This section provides a summary of the current connectors.

HTTP Connector

The HTTP connector supports workload execution via the HTTP protocol.

It is a synchronous request / reply component that supports the following features:

• Supports HTTP 1.0 and 1.1 specifications.
• Supports authentication via Basic, Digest, and NTLM.
• Supports GET and POST operations with Form data.

SOAP Connector

The SOAP connector supports workload execution via the SOAP protocol.

It is a synchronous request / reply component that supports the following features:

• Supports the SOAP 1.1 specification
• Supports Publish, Request / Reply Inbound, and Request / Reply message exchange patterns

JMS Connector

The JMS connector supports workload execution via the JMS protocol using synchronous and asynchronous communication.

It supports the following features:

• Supports the JMS 1.1 specification.
• Supports Publish, Subscribe, and Request / Reply message exchange patterns.
• Supports Queue- and Topic-based operations.

MQ Connector

The MQ connector supports workload execution via the MQ messaging protocol using synchronous and asynchronous communication.

It supports the following features:

• Supports Publish, Subscribe, and Request / Reply message exchange patterns.
• Supports Queue-based operations.

XD Connector

The XD Connector supports workload execution within the WebSphere Extended Deployment environment using synchronous communication via the SOAP protocol.

It supports the following features:

• Submit jobs to WebSphere XD.
• Restart jobs to WebSphere XD.
• Cancelling jobs.
• Pass back return code, job output, and application messages.
• Supports Request / Reply message exchange pattern.