Adapters Integrated with IDE and Operating Systems

Because the effort required to build adapters is quite extensive, and the realization among IT professionals that the majority of the adapters needed will have to be developed in-house, there will be increasing focus on IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) and their capability to support adapter development. Even the existence of standards such as JCA specifications does not replace the need for better adapter development tools. The capability to look up adapters from a central catalogue, exploring the adapters interfaces and API, and debugging resource adapters using common component interface (CCI)-based test clients are some of the features J2EE developers should expect from Java IDE ...

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