Chapter 35. Connector Architecture
The Connector architecture enables Java EE components to interact with enterprise information systems (EISs) and EISs to interact with Java EE components. EIS software includes various types of systems: enterprise resource planning (ERP), mainframe transaction processing, and nonrelational databases, among others. Connector architecture simplifies the integration of diverse EISs. Each EIS requires only one implementation of the Connector architecture. Because an implementation adheres to the Connector specification, it is portable across all compliant Java EE servers.
About Resource Adapters
A resource adapter is a Java EE component that implements the Connector architecture for a specific EIS. As illustrated in ...
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