Integration connectors are the main component that facilitate integration and contain all the information needed to connect to a data source or application.
You can build your integrations with the catalog of connectors, or leverage the Connector SDK to build a custom connector to leverage the Boomi Enterprise Platform.
Connector benefits
Boomi connectors make it faster and easier for you to unify your data, systems, applications, processes, and people. Connectors let you easily connect and integrate third-party applications, such as Salesforce to NetSuite, to send and receive data between them. When you are assigned a Boomi account, you have access to all public application and technology connectors. You can also use the Connector SDK to build your own private, custom connectors.
Connectors provide the following benefits:
- Simplifies application support
- Automatic updates and lower cost of ownership. When a new version of an API is available, the connector automatically updates to support that version.
- To protect access to your data, connectors support many authentication types including basic authentication, password digest, client certificate, OAuth, and so on.
- Connectors automatically discover the latest objects supported in an application API. For example, creating data, inserting data, deleting data, querying data, and so on.
- Highly configurable
- Connectors are highly configurable and support advanced options to fine-tune their behavior. For example, the HTTP Client connector supports cookie scope to set the persistence of cookies. Many connectors support advanced options so you can more manipulate and fine-tune data.
- Built-in data manipulation
- Increase your productivity while working with data by automatically paging through large data sets and retrieving the entire data set from the API.
- Optimize data transfer and efficiency by splitting large files into smaller chunks.
- Support batches to improve efficiency and performance, thereby reducing the processing time for an operation.
- Real-time support
- For real-time data processing, integration, and process orchestration, some connectors provide listener support. For example, the Microsoft Azure Service Bus connector listens for messages from queues and topics. The JMS connector works with any JMS v1.1 messaging provider to send and receive messages from JMS queues or topics. The Atom Queue connector sends and receives messages to and from native Integration basic runtime message queues. This helps ensure you are working with the latest and most current data.
- Other listen-only connectors such as the Listener connector, the Flow Services Server connector, and the AS2 Shared Server connector, are available to provide real-time data validation and integration, including communication with trading partners.