J2EE Connector Architecture and Enterprise Application

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Chapter 1, Enterprise Application Integration | Chapter 10, Building a Resource Adapter

The JDC is pleased to present two chapters from J2EE Connector Architecture and Enterprise Application Integration, By Rahul Sharma, Beth Stearns, and Tony Ng, published by Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.

About the Book

The Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Connector architecture (JCA) is the key component for enterprise application integration (EAI) in the Java platform. In addition to facilitating enterprise application integration, the Connector architecture helps to integrate existing enterprise applications and information systems with Web services and applications.

Written for J2EE application developers, this book addresses the problems faced by Web-based enterprise environments for integrating existing enterprise systems and applications. It is the definitive guide to showing enterprise developers how to use the Connector architecture to incorporate existing enterprise infrastructure and applications into a Web-based environment.

About the Chapters

Chapter 1, "Enterprise Application Integration," describes the state of enterprise application integration today and shows how it has evolved to where it is today.

Chapter 10, "Building a Resource Adapter," describes the steps involved in building a resource adapter, which is a system-level software driver that provides the connection to the vendor's EIS.

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About the Author

Rahul Sharma is a senior staff engineer and lead architect of the J2EE Connector architecture with Sun Microsystems, Inc. Rahul is currently the lead architect of the JAX-RPC (Java APIs for XML based RPC) 1.0 and has been with Sun for five years. He holds a computer engineering degree from the Delhi University, India and an MBA from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.

Beth Stearns is the principal partner of ComputerEase Publishing, a computer consulting firm she founded in 1982. Her client list includes Sun Microsystems, Inc., Silicon Graphics, Inc., Oracle Corporation, and Xerox Corporation. Among her publications are the "Java Native Interface" chapter in "The Java Tutorial Continued" book in the Addison Wesley Java series, "The EJB Programming Guide" for Inprise Corporation, and "Understanding EDT", a guide to Digital Equipment Corporation's text editor. She co-authored with Vlada Matena the book, "Applying Enterprise JavaBeans: Component-Based Development for the J2EE Platform," which is part of the Addison Wesley Java series.

Tony Ng is a Staff Engineer with Sun Microsystems and is currently the project lead of the J2EE SDK and Reference Implementation. He has designed and implemented a number of Java technologies, including the J2EE Connector Architecture, the Java Transaction Service and the J2EE Blueprints. He is a co-author of "Designing Enterprise Applications with the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition", published by Addison Wesley. Tony has a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a S.M. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.