May 2002
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
8h 30m
English
This could be one of the most controversial trends presented in this chapter. Some of the package vendors do provide adapters today. For example, SAP will soon provide its own version of JCA-compliant resource adapters. Although a handful of package vendors continue to have a similar strategy, most of the other package vendors will prefer not to. The reason is fragmentation of the application infrastructure technology.
Even today, you must deal with J2EE-compliant application servers on different Windows and UNIX platforms—and then there is the emerging .NET platform from Microsoft, mainframe operating systems, and other proprietary platforms. It will be very hard for package vendors to ...
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