The traditional use of an IRIS production is for an inbound adapter to receive input from an external source, send that input to an IRIS service, then have that service send that input through the production.

With a custom inbound adapter though, we can make an IRIS production do more. We can use an IRIS production to process data from our own database without any external trigger.

By using an IRIS production in this way your data processing tasks now get to leverage all the built in features of an IRIS production, including: