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Connection descriptions
You must provide EIS connection descriptions for the enterprise metadata discovery service. Adapter Foundation Classes contain interface implementations to help you get started.
Like ServiceDescription, ConnectionDescription can be either inbound or outbound service. Adapter Foundation Classes provide implementation for ConnectionDescription interfaces. Discovery service implementations need not implement these interfaces.
Inbound Connection Description
The following information must supplied by the discovery service implementations:
- ResourceAdapter - This is an instance of the ResourceAdapter JavaBeans that will be used to configure a resource adapter instance.
- ActivationSpecWithXid - This is an ActivationSpecWithXid instance that will be passed to ResourceAdapter.endpointActivation() at run time to support the methods defined on the inbound service.
Outbound Connection Description
The following information must supplied by the discovery service implementations
- ResourceAdapter - This is an instance of the ResourceAdapter JavaBeans that will be used to configure a resource adapter instance.
- ManagedConnectionFactory - This is an instance of the ManagedConnectionFactory JavaBeans that will be used to configure an instance of the ManagedConnectionFactory at run time for creating outbound connections.