May 2002
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
8h 30m
English
The JCA specifications is the first attempt by a vendor to define a standard platform for adapters. JCA is not a complete adapter platform yet. It is more of a component interface for J2EE applications especially designed for adapters. J2EE has become the de facto standard for application servers. This is a good launching platform for JCA to follow in those steps.
Serious holes in the JCA specification need to be addressed before it becomes a decent adapter platform standard that is capable of supporting complex integration scenarios, however. Some of the glaring deficiencies in JCA are being handled in the next version of the specifications. Among these include the lack of asynchronous interfaces ...
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