Resource adapters are sets of related classes that let an application access a resource such as data, or an application on a remote server, often called an Enterprise Information System (EIS). When working with J2EE Connector (J2C) resource adaptors, formerly known as J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA), you have to add an instance of the J2C connection factory and configure its properties.
The connection factory provides connections to the EIS on demand. You specify all the information needed by the resource adapter to connect to the particular instance of the EIS. You also specify the JNDI lookup name under which the new connection factory instance will be available to components. With this lookup name, the components can quickly make a connection to the EIS. You can add resource adapters and connection factories on WebSphere® Enhanced EAR editor. The WebSphere Enhanced EAR editor is the Deployment page in the Application Deployment Descriptor editor.
Steps for this task:
To add a connection factory to a WebSphere Application Server v6.0 server, complete the following steps: