To amplify a little bit on Jeremy's response...
On Sep 26, 2005, at 12:28 AM, Manu George wrote:
Hi,
I have a few doubts about geronimo features. I checked out the
release notes from M4 but would like to know if there is any document
listing the features added upto now. Specifically I have a few
questions
1) Does Geronimo have datasource failover capabilities like in
JBOSS?
2) How many connection managers does geronimo support? Can
custom connection managers be plugged in?
The connection manager is interceptor based so it is pretty flexible.
At the moment you cannot plug in a custom connection manager, but this
capability could be added fairly easily. I would need to know what the
alternate connection manager does before pursuing this. I suspect you
are more likely to want to replace the entire jca subsystem or want to
improve the existing geronimo connection manager.
3) Geronimo does not yet handle drivers that supply their own
DataSource,Is this statement still valid?
no
How many types of datasources does geronimo support?
Tranql has generic wrappers for DataSource, ConnectionPoolDatasource,
and XADataSource. For all of these you are going to want to write at
least a ManagedConnectionFactory implementation that exposes the actual
properties you can set on the datasource, a task that is apt to take
about 5 minutes.
4) Can you connect to RDBMS's that have not yet implemented
JCA-JDBC drivers in geronimo?
Yes, using the tranql connector jca-jdbc wrappers.
thanks
david jencks
