Java EE Connector Architecture (JCA)

The Java EE Connector Architecture 1.7 Specification was developed under JSR 322. This section just gives you an overview of improvements in the API. The complete document specification (for more information) can be downloaded from http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr322/index.html.

What is JCA?

Generally, Enterprise Information Systems (EISs) of large companies are composed of a number of tools such as Enterprise Resource Planning applications (ERP, that is SAP), Customer Relationship Management applications (CRM, that is salesforce.com), mainframe Transaction Processing applications, legacy applications and Database Systems (such as Oracle). In such an environment, the development of a new solution may require access to one or more of these tools to retrieve information or perform processing: we then talk of an Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). In the absence of a standard solution, this integration will be costly to both vendors...