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7.3.1 Preparing the J2CA artifacts

Importing the resource adapter

We needed to import the CICS resource adapter prior the creation of J2CA

artifacts. We did it the same way as in the automated migration section: 7.2.2,

“Preparing the migration environment” on page 101.

Creating the Service Project

1. We created the new Service Project using File → New → Service Project.

2. Then we created the folder for the COBOL records and imported all

necessary CCP files by using File

→ Import, choosing the File System as a

source and selecting the appropriate folder.

Figure 7-27 Importing the COBOL sources

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Creating the Services

Each combination of input and output records requires the creation of a separate

Service. For correspondence with the existing code, we created the same folder

structure as we had for CCF artifacts.

1. We selected File

→ New → Service built from.

2. Then we chose CICS ECI as the Service source (Figure 7-28).

Figure 7-28 Creating the Service for the CICS ECI adapter

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3. All connection properties will be located on the server, so we defined the JNDI

name for the Connection Factory resource.

Figure 7-29 Specifying Service properties

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4. We entered the name of the command and clicked Finish.

Figure 7-30 Creating the Service binding

Note: The JNDI lookup name in this dialog is a local resource binding

lookup, being looked up in the java:comp/env namespace if deployed into a

Web container. So at this point it was necessary to define what the JNDI

local name will be to avoid changing this for all of the defined services

(which we had to do).

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5. The corresponding Service was created and the appropriate Bindings WSDL

file was opened automatically by WebSphere Studio.

After the creation of the Service, we needed to create the binding content. We

chose the Binding tab, right-clicked, and selected Generate Binding

Content.

Figure 7-31 Generating binding content