This figure provides an overview of the agent and bridge components of an adapter. The terms mentioned in this figured are described throughout this chapter.

A box labeled Adapter sits in the middle of this figure. Inside the Adapter box are two boxes: An Agent box and a Bridge box. The Agent box includes two smaller boxes: one labeleled Common View and the other labeled App View. The Common View and App View boxes connect to each other with an arrow. The wording where the Common View and App View box connect says Metadata Driven Tranformation.

The Bridge box inside the Adapter box connects to four other boxes with arrows:

The Bridge box includes wording underneath that says Transport and/or Application Specific (Manages Conversation).

To the left of the Adapter box is a database labeled Advanced Queuing. These two connect to each other with an arrow labeled To Hub.

The Adapter box connects above to a database labeled Repository. Three bullets located next to the repository say Business, Events, Transformations, and Routing Rules.