javax.resource.cci: public interface: ConnectionFactory

javax.resource.cci
public interface: ConnectionFactory [javadoc | source]

All Implemented Interfaces:
Referenceable, Serializable

ConnectionFactory provides an interface for getting connection to an EIS instance. An implementation of ConnectionFactory interface is provided by a resource adapter.

Application code looks up a ConnectionFactory instance from JNDI namespace and uses it to get EIS connections.

An implementation class for ConnectionFactory is required to implement java.io.Serializable and javax.resource.Referenceableinterfaces to support JNDI registration.

Also see:

javax.resource.cci.Connection

javax.resource.Referenceable

author: Rahul - Sharma

version: 0.8 -

Method from javax.resource.cci.ConnectionFactory Summary:
getConnection, getConnection, getMetaData, getRecordFactory

Method from javax.resource.cci.ConnectionFactory Detail:
public Connection getConnection() throws ResourceException Gets a connection to an EIS instance. This getConnection variant should be used when a component wants the container to manage EIS sign-on. This case is termed container-managed sign-on. The component does not pass any security information.
public Connection getConnection(ConnectionSpec properties) throws ResourceException Gets a connection to an EIS instance. A component should use the getConnection variant with javax.resource.cci.ConnectionSpec parameter, if it needs to pass any resource adapter specific security information and connection parameters. In the component- managed sign-on case, an application component passes security information (example: username, password) through the ConnectionSpec instance. It is important to note that the properties passed through the getConnection method should be client-specific (example: username, password, language) and not related to the configuration of a target EIS instance (example: port number, server name). The ManagedConnectionFactory instance is configured with complete set of properties required for the creation of a connection to an EIS instance.
public ResourceAdapterMetaData getMetaData() throws ResourceException Gets metadata for the Resource Adapter. Note that the metadata information is about the ResourceAdapter and not the EIS instance. An invocation of this method does not require that an active connection to an EIS instance should have been established.
public RecordFactory getRecordFactory() throws ResourceException Gets a RecordFactory instance. The RecordFactory is used for the creation of generic Record instances.