IBM WebSphere Adapters User Manual page 216

Outbound
Performance monitoring infrastructure (PMI)
Request
Subclass
Wizard
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Outbound is a description of the direction in which data and messages pass
from a J2EE client application to the EIS. Adapters support both inbound and
outbound data flow.
A set of packages and libraries assigned to gather, deliver, process, and display
performance data. PMI is the underlying framework in WebSphere Application
Server that gathers performance data from various runtime resources such as
adapters. The purpose of monitoring is to observe the progress of execution of
WebSphere business integration applications, and the WebSphere business
integration system itself, and publish the results of this observation.
In a request and response interaction, the role performed by a business object
that instructs an adapter to interact with an application or other programmatic
entity.
In programming, to add custom processing to an existing function or
subroutine by hooking into the routine at a predefined point and adding
additional lines of code.
A sequence of dialogue pages which collect user input to perform a task such
as creating a New Java Project in the workspace or creating a New Java Class
within a selected project.