a UDI software-only driver that maps one metalanguage to another, for example a Fibre Channel to SCSI mapper. A mapper is 100% UDI code, unlike an external mapper. Also known as an internal mapper.
The integration of DMI 2.0 technology is done through the Mapper, that acts as a subagent. The Mapper receives the requests from the Master Agent and converts them into appropriate DMI requests that are sent to the DMI Service Provider. When the Mapper receives the response from the DMI Service Provider, it converts this response into the SNMP response and forwards it to the Manager through the Master Agent.
In the Enterprise Access Builder, a class that maps the properties of a bean (for example, a record) to or from the properties of a set of beans (for example, business objects). Mappers are constructed in the mapper builder.