Category

Feature

Support

Notes

 

 

 

 

Connector properties

ApplicationPassword

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

ApplicationUserName

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

UseDefaults

No

There is no validation of the business objects

 

 

 

by the connector. i2 validates the XML sent

 

 

 

from the connector as input. No call to

 

 

 

initAndValidateAttributes.

 

 

 

 

Message tracing

General messaging

Full

 

 

 

 

 

 

generateMsg()

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trace level 0

Full

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trace level 1

Full

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trace level 2

Full

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trace level 3

N/A

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trace level 4

Full

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trace level 5

Full

 

 

 

 

 

Misc.

CDK method LogMsg

Full

WBIA API methods generateAndTrace and

 

 

 

generateAndLogMsgs are used.

 

 

 

 

 

Java Package Names

Full

 

 

 

 

 

 

Logging messages

Full

 

 

 

 

 

 

NT service compliance

Full

 

 

 

 

 

 

Transaction support

N/A

There is no transaction support in i2.

 

 

 

 

Special value

CxBlank processing

Full

Empty double quotation marks (″″) in an

 

 

 

XML document are used as the PCDATA

 

 

 

equivalent of CxBlank.

 

 

 

 

 

CxIgnore processing

Full

No XML is generated for CxIgnore attributes.

 

 

 

 

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