Data Transformation Engine What's New Reference Guide

Chapter 7 – Version 6.0 Mercator Programming Interfaces
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♦ Map authors no longer need to remember complicated library and function
names as they did when using the Application adapter.
♦ You can create adapters to suit your specific requirements.
♦ Third parties can create adapters with as much functionality as Mercator
adapters.
♦ Customer and third-party adapters can be listed in the Map Designer and
Integration Flow Designer.
♦ User-developed adapters, type trees, maps, and integration flows can also be
freely shared with other customers via http://www.mymercator.com/.
♦ Exposes an interface for the development of a listener, a component of an
adapter that listens for events and notifies the Event Server when such an
event occurs.
Pointer Override for the Platform API
A new I/O type, pointer, has been added to the current Platform API to provide an
alternative to the echo I/O type when passing data to a Mercator map. This new
feature eliminates the need to duplicate buffers in order to run the map.