To access an enterprise information system (EIS), configure connection
factories, which instantiate resource adapter classes for establishing and
maintaining resource connections.
About this task
An application component uses a connection factory to access
a connection instance, which the component then uses to connect to the underlying
enterprise information system (EIS). Examples of connections include database
connections, Java Message Service connections, and SAP R/3 connections.
Procedure
- Click Resources.
- Click Resource Adapters.
- Select a resource adapter under Resource Adapters.
- Click J2C Connection Factories under Additional Properties
.
- Click New.
- Specify General Properties .
- Select the authentication preference.
- Select aliases for component-managed authentication, container-managed
authentication, or both. If none are available, or you want
to define a different one, click Apply > J2C Authentication Data
Entries under Related Items.
- Click J2C Auth Data Entries under Related Items.
- Click New.
- Specify General Properties.
- Click OK.
- Click OK.
- Click the J2C connection factory you just created.
- Under Additional Properties click Connection Pool.
- Change any values desired by clicking the property name.
- Click OK.
- Click Custom Properties under Additional Properties.
- Click any property name to change its value. Note that UserName and Password if
present, are overridden by the component-managed authentication alias
you specified in a previous step.
- Click Save.
- Restart the Deployment Manager and node agent
for the changes to take effect.