The Inbound Adapter sits between the J2EE biz tier and the workflow
engine and receives business events from the J2EE applications. It
translates these requests into workflow commands.

The Outbound Adapter sits between the workflow engine and J2EE
presentation tier and notifies users of work-items. It also directs the
users to the appropriate web page of the J2EE app to commit the work.

jc

Maciek Zywno wrote:

> Hello
>
> Could you point the difference between an inbound and outbound adapter.
> ( in the last paragrapgh(about Web Worker pattern) of Core J2EE Patterns
> book it is written that Action Adapter is an inbound adapter and Work
> Adapter is an outbound adapter)?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Maciek Zywno
>
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