Proprietary Adapters Will Be Displaced
With all the current activity in establishing adapter standards, it is anybody's guess whether proprietary adapters will be displaced in the near future. EAI vendors and other integration platform vendors will have to redesign their adapters. A very common approach to JCA compliance is wrapping proprietary adapters with JCA-compliant resource adapters. Although this strategy results in faster product delivery, it adds a lot of unnecessary code to the resource adapters. Given the choice between a proprietary SAP adapter wrapped by a resource adapter and a native SAP resource adapter, we can safely assume that customers will prefer the native resource adapter. Existing adapter vendors with proprietary architectures ...
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