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.
- Restart the Deployment
Manager and the node agent for the changes to take effect.