This chapter examines how to use facilities provided by the Teiid API to develop a JEE JCA Connector. Please note that these are standard JEE JCA connectors, nothing special needs to be done for Teiid. As an aid to our Translator developers, we provided a base implementation framework. If you already have a JCA Connector or some other mechanism to get data from your source system, you can skip this chapter.

If you are not familiar with JCA API, please read the JCA 1.5 Specification at http://java.sun.com/j2ee/connector/. There are lot of online tutorials on how to design and build a JCA Connector. The below we show you to build very simple connector, however building actual connector that supports transactions, security can get much more complex.

Refer to the JBoss Application Server Connectors documentation at http://docs.jboss.org/jbossas/jboss4guide/r4/html/ch7.chapt.html.