Use the

Informatica Connector Toolkit

to define one or more native metadata definitions for the adapter to read from and write to the data source. The

Informatica Connector Toolkit

internally uses a metadata model that represents the metadata.

The pattern classes in the metadata model describe the metadata structure. When the

Informatica Connector Toolkit

publishes the adapter, it registers the metadata model in the Model repository. After the

Informatica Connector Toolkit

registers the metadata model in the Model repository, you can use the Developer tool to import metadata from the data source.