The ESP adapter integration framework provides a mechanism for integrating custom external adapters with the ESP Server and ESP Studio.
A custom external adapter is any application that publishes or subscribes to a stream or a set of streams in Event Stream Processor using the publisher and subscriber APIs from any of the Event Stream Processor SDKs.
To start and stop external adapters together with an ESP project or visually from within Studio, create an instance of the adapter plug-in by creating a specialized cnxml configuration file for the adapter. Within this file, specify command lines that the ESP Server can invoke during various stages of adapter runtime and initialization.