Jakarta Connectors 2.1

This feature enables the configuration of resource adapters to access Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) from applications. The configuration of a resource adapter also includes the configuration of connection factories, administered objects and activation specifications. Any resource adapter that complies with the Jakarta Connectors 2.1 specification or lower can be used. High performance connection pooling is also provided.

Enable this feature

To enable the Jakarta Connectors 2.1 feature, add the following element declaration into the server.xml file, inside the featureManager element:

<feature>connectors-2.1</feature>

Feature configuration elements

• activationSpec
• adminObject
• application
• applicationManager
• applicationMonitor
• authData
• classloader
• classloading
• connectionFactory
• connectionManager
• javaPermission
• kerberos
• library
• resourceAdapter
• transaction

Standard API packages provided by this feature

• jakarta.resource
• jakarta.resource.cci
• jakarta.resource.spi
• jakarta.resource.spi.endpoint
• jakarta.resource.spi.security
• jakarta.resource.spi.work

Liberty API packages provided by this feature

• com.ibm.ws.jca.cm.mbean

Supported Java versions

• JavaSE-11.0
• JavaSE-17.0
• JavaSE-21.0
• JavaSE-24.0

Platform Versions

• jakartaee-10.0

Features that enable this feature

• jakartaee-10.0
• messaging-3.1

Develop a feature that depends on this feature

If we are developing a feature that depends on this feature, include the following item in the Subsystem-Content header in your feature manifest file.

io.openliberty.connectors-2.1; type="osgi.subsystem.feature"