The Java Connector Architecture (JCA)
Just as a JDBC driver provides connectivity to a database, resource adapters provide connectivity to an enterprise information system (EIS), which can be an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system or a legacy database or mainframe transactional database. WebLogic Server implements the Java EE Connector Architecture (JCA) to provide connectivity between the applications you deploy to WebLogic Server and an EIS. In a way, JCA is somewhat like JDBC, which lets a developer write a single set of code to talk to any database using the JDBC API. Similarly, instead of writing custom code to communicate to each of the corporate back-end systems, developers can simply write code that talks to the connectors, which ...
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