JCA : Java Glossary

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JCA

JCA (J2EE Connector Architecture) is replacing JDBC as the API for database drivers to hook into J2EE servers. JCA is a much more flexible approach that defines an API that can be used for any kind of connection, not just a connection to a database. If a database vendor provides a JCA interface, it is the best one to use.

You can also use the JCA interface to make various legacy or bizarre datasources easily available to Java programmers in a standard way using a

Sun’s Developer Technical Articles on JCA Resource Adapter

JCA also refers to Java Cryptography Architecture that came with Java 1.1, now replaced by JCE.

J2EE
JCE
JDBC
SQL

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