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Chapter26VisiConnect overview
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J2EE™ Connector Architecture
In the information technology environment, enterprise applications generally
access functions and data associated with Enterprise Information Systems
(EIS). This traditionally has been performed using non-standard, vendor-
specific architectures. When multiple vendors are involved, the number of
architectures involved exponentiate the complexity of the enterprise
application environment. With the introduction of the Java 2 Enterprise Edition
(J2EE) 1.3 Platform and the J2EE Connector Architecture (Connectors) 1.0
standards, this task has been greatly simplified.
VisiConnect, the Borland implementation of the Connectors 1.0 standard,
provides a simplified environment for integrating various EISs with the Borland
Enterprise Server. The Connectors provides a solution for integrating J2EE-
platform application servers and EISs, leveraging the strengths of the J2EE
platform - connection, transaction and security infrastructure - to address the
challenges of EIS integration. With the Connectors, EIS vendors need not
customize integration to their platforms for each application server. Through
VisiConnect's strict conformance to the Connectors, the Borland Enterprise
Server itself requires no customization in order to support integration with a
new EIS.
Connectors enables EIS vendors to provide standard Resource Adapters for
their EISs. These Resource Adapters are deployed to the Borland Enterprise
Server, each providing the integration implementation between the EIS and