J2C Connection Factories collection
Use this page to view Java 2 Connector (J2C) connection factories, which represent sets of connection configuration values.
Application components such as enterprise beans have resource reference descriptors that refer to the connection factory, not the resource adapter. The connection factory is really a configuration properties list holder. In addition to the arbitrary set of configuration properties defined by the vendor of the resource adapter, there are several standard configuration properties that apply to the connection factory. These standard properties are used by the Java 2 Connectors connection pool manager in the application server run time and are not known by the vendor-supplied resource adapter code.
We can access this administrative console page in one of two ways:
- Resources > Resource Adapters > J2C connection factories
- Resources > Resource Adapters > Resource adapters > resource_adapter > J2C connection factories
Name
Display name of a connection factory.
Information Value Data type String
JNDI name
Specifies the JNDI name of this connection factory.
Information Value Data type String
Scope
Scope of the connection factory. Only applications that are installed within this scope can use this connection factory.
Provider
Resource adapter that WAS uses for this connection factory.
Description
Specifies a text description of this connection factory.
Information Value Data type String
Connection factory interface
Fully qualified name of the interface that provides the implementation class for the connection factory.
Category
Specifies a string that we can use to classify or group this connection factory.
Information Value Data type String
Subtopics
- J2C connection factories settings
Use this page to specify settings for a connection factory.
- J2C Connection Factory advanced settings
Use this page to specify settings for a Java 2 Connector (J2C) connection factory.
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- JCA 1.6 support for annotations in RAR modules
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Related concepts
Relational resource adapters and JCA Connection pooling
Related tasks
Configure connection factories for resource adapters within applications Configure Java EE Connector connection factories in the administrative console
J2C connection factories settings
J2C Connection Factory advanced settings