Connector Container Service
Purpose
This component manages the overall connectivity to back-end resource systems. It provides a runtime environment for resource adapters that enable you to connect to heterogeneous Enterprise Information Systems (EIS).
Implementation Considerations
You need to install this component if your business applications use any type of external resource system – that is, an EIS, a relational database, or a JMS system.
Integration
This component is closely related to the other services that relate to the connector architecture in the J2EE Engine, namely JDBC Connector Service and JMS Connector Service. While the other components implement the logic of connection creation, the Connector Container Service manages the overall process of requesting and returning to the client connections to all types of resource systems for which resource adapters are installed.
Features
As an implementation of the J2EE Connector Architecture 1.0 standard, the Connector Container Service enables you to access various resource systems in a unified way, using resource adapters.
The resource adapters are deployed on the J2EE Engine similarly to the other J2EE components – enterprise beans, web components, and application clients.
The Connector Container Service enables connection pooling. After you release a connection, the component stores it in a pool, so that it can be reused the next time the system receives a request for connection.
For more
information about the connector architecture in the J2EE Engine, see
J2EE Connector
Architecture in the Development Manual.
Using the Runtime tab of the Connector Container Service in the Visual Administrator tool, you can:
· View the configuration of the resource adapters that are deployed and started on the server
· Modify the properties of a ManagedConnectionFactory