JCA Overview
J2EE 1.3 contains a connector architecture (JCA) specification that allows for the integration of transacted and secure resource adaptors into a J2EE application server environment. The JCA specification describes the notion of such resource managers as Enterprise Information Systems (EIS). Examples of EIS include enterprise resource planning packages, mainframe transaction processing, non-Java legacy applications, and so on.
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The full JCA specification is available from the JCA home page at http://java.sun.com/j2ee/connector/.
The reason for the focus of the JCA specification on EIS is primarily because the notions of transactions, security, and scalability are requirements in enterprise software systems.
However, the JCA is ...
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