Re: JCA in a non-managed environment

At 10:01 PM 1/13/03 -0500, David Jencks wrote:
>Whatever that piece of the spec is trying to communicate (perhaps
>rather unsucessfully), I'm sure it is not suggesting that a connector
>needs to include a jndi implementation nor a jca deployment mechanism,
>which is the way the ConnectionFactory would get into jndi in the first
>place.

I don't think it should suggest this, either, but evidently it does, at
least to some readers. Note that if you are using the servlet container of
a full-featured J2EE application server, you probably could register the
connector into JNDI (with an appropriate tool), and use the recommended
procedure in the non-managed client (servlet) of looking up the
ConnectionFactory in JNDI. But in general, in the J2SE environment, I don't
think you can't assume this is possible.

This is why TIBCO's connector implementation allows direct construction of
the ConnectionFactory instance in the non-managed environment. I have
limited experience with other connectors, but IBM's connector for CICS
apparently does the same thing.

--Jon

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