Issue 5538: Concept of an adapter vs. a connector is only causing confusio (uml-eai-ftf) Source: (, ) Nature: Uncategorized Issue Severity: Summary: I think the concept of an adapter vs. a connector is only causing confusion. Most people relate to the adapter as per the Gang of Four pattern, which is a transformation between interfaces. Yet the connector appears to have the ability to perform a transformation too. An adapter (or connector in OMG world) IS middleware, but you have middleware as this nebulous cloud in the architecture Resolution: Revised Text: Actions taken: July 18, 2002: received issue Discussion: End of Annotations:===== X-Sender: linda@emerald.omg.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 13:10:13 -0400 To: Juergen Boldt From: "Scott Nieman" (by way of Linda Heaton ) Subject: FW: ptc/02-02-02 UML Profile and Interchange Models for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Specification Here it is............. Correction, OMI was released by webMethods just recently. Scott -----Original Message----- From: Scott Nieman [mailto:scott@ebmachines.com] Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 2:17 PM To: issues@omg.org Subject: ptc/02-02-02 UML Profile and Interchange Models for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Specification UML Profile and Interchange Models for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Specification I understand that the submission deadline was July 1, 2002, but I want to know if you are interested in my comments regarding this specification. I have a number of them including: 1) I think the concept of an adapter vs. a connector is only causing confusion. Most people relate to the adapter as per the Gang of Four pattern, which is a transformation between interfaces. Yet the connector appears to have the ability to perform a transformation too. An adapter (or connector in OMG world) IS middleware, but you have middleware as this nebulous cloud in the architecture