Sandip Mane

Transactional support is fundamental to application development. While most data sources are transactional in nature, some data sources like the file system are not. In typical J2EE deployments, applications often need to interface with other applications through file-based messages. Such deployments would benefit from an adapter that would buffer all file operations and provide a transactional view to the file system. This article, targeted at developers, demonstrates how J2EE Connector Architecture and JTA specifications can be implemented to build such an adapter, XAFileConnector. We'll also suggest enhancements to extend the adapter functionality in light of the new proposed draft connector specifications. Most applications are bound to the local file system. They ... (more)