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 .
- In the Resource adapters panel, select the
resource adapter that you want to configure.
- From the Additional Properties heading,
click J2C connection factories.
- Click New.
- Specify any properties for the connection factory in the General
Properties panel.
- Select the authentication preference.
- Select the aliases for Component-managed authentication, Container-managed
authentication, or both. Some choices for the mapping-configuration
alias do not use a container-managed authentication alias, so you will not
be able to select a container-managed alias if one of those mapping-configuration
aliases is selected.
If you have defined security domains in the application
server, you can click Browse... to select an authentication
alias for the resource that you are configuring. Security domains allow you
to isolate authentication aliases between servers. The tree view is useful
in determining the security domain to which an alias belongs, and the tree
view can help you determine the servers that will be able to access each authentication
alias. The tree view is tailored for each resource, so domains and aliases
are hidden when you cannot use them.
Supported configurations: If the resource
adapter supports XA, an option for
Authentication alias for XA
recovery will be available.
sptcfg
If there are no aliases that
are available, or you want to define a different alias:
- Click Apply to save the current settings.
- Click JAAS - J2C authentication data from the Related
Items heading.
- Click New.
- Define the properties for the alias in General Properties.
- Click OK.
- Click OK.
- Click the name of the J2C connection factory that you created.
- From the Additional Properties heading,
click Connection pool properties.
- Change any values by clicking the property name. For
more information on the settings for connection pools, read the topic Tuning
connection pools, or the topic, Connection pool settings.
- Click OK.
- Click Custom properties from the Additional
Properties heading.
- Click any property name to change its value. If the UserName and Password properties
are defined, they will be overridden by the component-managed authentication
alias that you specified in the previous step.
- Click Save.