Wrapup

Summary

In this tutorial, you have been introduced to the J2EE Connector Architecture. We started with a high-level view of JCA and its primary elements: system contracts, the client API, and the resource adapter module. From there, we moved on to a more detailed discussion, encompassing the interfaces, classes, and methods that work beneath JCA to create and manage connections to an EIS. As part of this discussion, we looked at the source code for an actual JCA implementation. Each of the most relevant components of the implementation was pulled out, and its various functions explained in detail. We closed with an actual resource adapter implementation, which you are free to continue exploring on your own.

This tutorial has provided you a hands-on, step-by-step introduction to the J2EE Connector Architecture, the most relevant components beneath that architecture, and the functionality of each of those components. You should now have a fairly good foundation for building your own JCA resource adapter and connecting to an EIS.

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• Getting started
• Introduction
• JCA's infrastructure
• Common Client Interface
• Sample resource adapter
• Sample application
• Wrapup
• Download
• Resources
• About the author

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