The JCA adapter supports the SOA concept (Service-Oriented Architecture).
SOA is a concept for a system architecture in which functions are implemented in the form of reusable, technically independent, loosely coupled services. Services can be called independently of the underlying implementations via interfaces whose specifications may be public and therefore reliable. Service interaction is performed via a specially provided communication infrastructure.
Using BeanConnect, it is possible to make components of UTM and CICS applications available as services. At the same time, UTM and CICS applications are able to address services in the application server.
Further information can be found, for example, at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serviceorientierte_Architektur