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Since MyEclipse does not appear to have support for JCA Connector projects, we would like a recommendation on how to migrate and setup JCA projects from WSAD to MyEclipse.
jbradfor,
Can you specify in detail what functionality MyEclipse would need in order for your team to function? (We haven’t looked into JCA support, I don’t even know what it is)Eclipse / WTP has some Connector project and RAR file import/export support.
A Resource Adapter Archive (.RAR) file is a Java archive file used to package a resource adapter for the Java 2 Connector (J2C) Architecture.
A RAR file can contain Enterprise information system (EIS, i.e. CICS) supplied resource adapter implementation code in the form of JAR files or runnable components, such as DLLs or Utility classes or static documents, such as HTML files, images, and sound files. The standard file extension of a RAR file is .rar.
Resource Adaptor:
A resource adapter is a software driver that a Java application uses to connect to an EIS.
A resource adapter plugs into an application server and provides connectivity between the EIS, the application server, and the enterprise application.
An application server vendor extends its system once to support the J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA) and is then assured of seamless connectivity to multiple EISs. Likewise, an EIS vendor provides one standard resource adapter with the capability to plug into any application server that supports JCA. JCA provides connection pooling, transaction, and security support.
Thank you very much for the info. Now what basic functionality would you need MyEclipse to do for you in order to get up and running? I’m thinking basic here, like deployment support for RAR’s into EARs? We can support that now as long as your RAR project name ends with a .rar extension: Test.rar for example.
We are aiming to improve this in 5.0, but for now that is how custom extensions work for deployed projects.
As far as importing and making sense of RARs, I can’t offer you support for that right now unfortunately.
If you are targeting to support WTP 1.5 with MyEclipse 5, you should inherit their JCA / RAR mechanisms (Connector Projects and improt/export RAR files), right?
