JCA adapter integration overview

This document describes the product BeanConnect. BeanConnect provides a JCA 1.6 compliant adapter connecting UTM applications (Universal Transaction Monitor) and CICS applications (Customer Information Control System) to applications based on Java EE, for example the Oracle WebLogicServer.

This chapter provides an overview of JCA adapter integration in a Java EE application server environment. The Java EE Connector Architecture (JCA) is a software architecture that permits the integration of heterogeneous applications in the Java EE platform.

The chapter describes the features of BeanConnect and shows how this product is embedded in the Oracle WebLogicServer Servers environment. In detail this chapter contains the following information:

• JCA adapter versions

• BeanConnect architecture

• BeanConnect as a JCA-compliant resource adapter

• BeanConnect in cluster operation