Writing Resource Adapters
Writing resource adapters is a lot of work. It's not an easy task and should be done by EIS vendors and third-party providers. If you have to actually compile the classes needed for a resource adapter, the Java software for J2EE version 1.3 or greater is required. All the required classes are also included in the weblogic.jar found in the <weblogic_root>\server\lib directory. Sun has a tool that integrates into Sun ONE Studio to facilitate writing resource adapters. This tool is not free, but it could save significant time, especially if more than one adapter is being written. A trial version is downloadable from Sun at http://wwws.sun.com/software/download/index.html.
As previously covered in this chapter, resource ...
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