Adapters and Beans
The brief outline of some of the capabilities of entity beans, session beans, and message-driven beans in the previous sections is bound to create some doubt in terms of the usefulness of JCA as compared with EJB. The benefits and strengths of JCA are not in its system contracts as much as in the formalization of the client API in the form of the CCI. Future versions of JCA will probably have a more comprehensive client API and stronger support for emerging XML-based protocols and APIs. There is no reason why this cannot be done with EJBs, but the objectives of EJB and JCA are different. EJB is a component model for distributing business logic of the J2EE application in relevant components. JCA is a standard method of accessing ...
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