Assembling and Deploying Resource Adapters
Resource adapters can be packaged and deployed in very much the same way as you would package and deploy web applications or EJB components. A resource adapter includes all the Java classes and interfaces that implement the required contracts and functionality. It also may use platform-specific libraries that enable it to talk to the EIS. All these files, along with any help files and documentation, are packaged into a JAR file, called the resource adapter archive (RAR). Just like a WAR file or an EJB JAR, a RAR file also packages XML deployment descriptors, which specify the deploy-time and runtime configuration settings for the resource adapter.
Packaging
A typical RAR includes the following components:
One or more JARs that contain all the Java interfaces, implementation, and utility classes required by the resource adapter.
Any platform-dependent libraries needed by the resource adapter.
Help files and documentation.
XML deployment descriptors (ra.xml and weblogic-ra.xml) that encapsulate metadata and various configuration settings for the resource adapter. The XML descriptor files must be placed in the META-INF directory.
Example 7-1 lists the contents of a typical RAR file.
Example 7-1. Contents of a resource adapter module (eis.rar)
/ra.jar /cci.jar /win.dll /solaris.so /Overview.html /GettingStarted.html /ReleaseNotes.html /LICENSE.txt /META-INF/ra.xml /META-INF/weblogic-ra.xml
Here, ra.jar and cci.jar contain the Java classes ...
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