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272 BES Developer’s Guide
Components
the Borland Enterprise Server. With VisiConnect, the Borland Enterprise
Server ensures access to heterogeneous EISs. In turn, the EIS vendors need
provide only one standard Connectors-compliant resource adapter. By default,
this resource adapter has the capability to deploy to the Borland Enterprise
Server.
Components
The Connectors environment consists of two major components - the
implementation of the Connectors in the application server, and the EIS-
specific Resource Adapter.
In the J2EE 1.3 Architecture, the Connectors is an extension of the J2EE
Container, otherwise known as the application server. In compliance with the
J2EE 1.3 Platform and Connectors 1.0 specifications, VisiConnect is an
extension of the Borland Enterprise Server, and not a service in and of itself.
The following diagram illustrates VisiConnect within the Borland Enterprise
Server Architecture:
Figure 26.1 VisiConnect within the Borland Enterprise Server
(VisiConnect is represented above by the module titled "Connectors.")