Install a Resource Adapter Archive (RAR) file

 

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Overview

WAS uses the classes and other code that comprise a Resource Adapter Archive (RAR) file to support the resource adapters that you configure.

A RAR file, which is often called a J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA) connector, must comply with the JCA Specification. Meet these requirements by using a supported assembly tool to assemble...

...into a deployable RAR file. Then you are ready to install your RAR file in Application Server.

A RAR file provides the classes and other code to support a resource adapter for access to a specific enterprise information system (EIS), such as the CICS. Hence you configure resource adapters for an EIS only after you install the appropriate RAR file.

 

Procedure

  1. Click...

    Resources | Resource Adapters | Install RAR

    The Install RAR button opens a dialog for both installing a RAR file and configuring an associated resource adapter.

    Only click New if you want to configure a new resource adapter for a previously installed RAR file.

    When installing a RAR file using this dialog, the scope you define on the Resource Adapters page has no effect on where the RAR file is installed. You can install RAR files only at the node level, which you specify on the Install RAR page.

  2. Browse to find the appropriate RAR file.

    • If your RAR file is located on your local workstation, select Local path and browse to find the file.

    • If your RAR file is located on your server, select Server path and specify the fully qualified path to the file.

  3. Click Next.

  4. Enter the resource adapter name and any other properties needed under General Properties.

    If you install a JCA resource adapter that includes Native path elements, consider the following: If you have more than one native path element, and one of the native libraries (native library A) is dependent on another library (native library B), then copy native library B to a system directory. On some Windows systems and supported UNIX systems, an attempt to load a native library does not look in the current directory.

  5. Click OK.


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Related concepts

Resource adapters

 

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