Beyond JCA Resource Adapters
The availability of adapters alone is not enough to promise rapid application integration. Adapters are useful for quantifying the integration solution, but the actual implementation requires many other integration-related artifacts and components. We have also learned that adapter development and implementation is not a one-time exercise, but requires sustainable planned efforts. Some of the emerging technology trends are more disruptive to adapters than others.
For example, Chapter 6, “Introduction to Web Services,” discusses the emerging Web Service trend and supporting technologies. The impact of Web services on adapters in general is not fully known yet, but it is quite possible that Web services could become ...
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