Developing applications to connect to enterprise information systems
Java EE Connector Architecture (JCA) plays a key role in the integration of applications and data using open standards. In this chapter, we introduce JCA, and demonstrate by example how to access operations and data on enterprise information systems (EIS) such as CICS, IMS™, SAP, Siebel®, PeopleSoft, JD | dwards®, and Oracle within the Java EE platform.
We also describe how to develop Java EE applications using Java EE Connector tools within Application Developer v7.5.
The chapter is organized into the following sections:
