Resource Adapters Supplied by Micro Focus

The Micro Focus resource adapters enable EJBs deployed on Java application servers to communicate with COBOL on an enterprise server. Resource adapters are also known loosely as J2EE or Java EE connectors.

Before an EJB can communicate with the COBOL code running on an enterprise server, you need to:

• Deploy a resource adapter to the Java application server. Only one resource adapter can be deployed at a time. This resource adapter then handles all the binary requests being sent to the enterprise server.

  You must deploy a resource adapter appropriate to your application server and the J2EE or Java EE version it uses. The following resource adapters are supplied for each supported application server and Java version:

  • mfcobol-notx.rar - does not support transactions
  • mfcobol-localtx.rar - supports local transactions
  • mfcobol-xa.rar - supports XA transactions
• Ensure that support for the resource adapter is available, by adding the archive files mfcobolpure.jar and mfconnector.jar to your classpath environment variable. Again, you must add support for the resource adapter appropriate to your application server and the Java version it uses.

The information needed to deploy the resource adapters is set up in deployment descriptors.