Basically what you are saying is someone (you) build a generic JCA-based connection pooling adapter in the Jakarta Commons arena, and then someone else (possibly me) build a Merlin facility that allows JCA adapters to be *plugged* into Merlin?
If that is what you are saying, there could be some interesting fallout for Merlin IMO. There are a number of ERP adapters out there that you can buy *off the shelf* that are JCA-compliant. These ERP adapters provide connections to many popular back-end business systems like SAP, Siebel, Oracle Financials, etc. A JCA facade for Merlin could open the platform up to some interesting business deployments, in addition to the benefits of *your* production-quality slick little JCA-based connection pooler.
Wow! That's a lot of pressure over this simple initiative :-)
Ha! No pressure! Let's just say I'm helping you scratch an itch!
My only wish is to not work alone in this. I can't learn much working alone
in something.
Yup.
By now, I'll start to digest the specs of JCA 1.5 and play around with it in the avalon-sandbox, ok? If we end up with a simple - yet powerfull - implementation we can talk again with Jakarta commons guys. Maybe Noel could help us a bit. Definitely Avalon is not the best home for it.
Ok... I'll start to digest the spec as well from the standpoint of providing a JCA facility to Merlin. I'm sure I'll have many questions for the resident Merlin gurus. Just exploratory at this point...
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