File Resource Adapter / News: Recent posts

The FileRA project is looking for donations to improve the development process and to allow implementation of some of the whishes that arrived in the past weeks. Every donation is welcome! :-)

The FileRA project just published Release 1.0.0 of their resource adapter. The module allows accessing local filesystems from EJBs and JSPs, which is not allowed directly but only through such an adapter.

The FileRA project is developing a JCA 1.5 compatible J2EE resource adapter which enables enterprise Java applications to access local files and files on network file shares.
You might think "for what do I need that?"!
Actually the EJB specification prohibits enterprise components to use the java.io.File API, so you can't just access files as you would do it on client software. This adapter provides a solution to all EJBs that need to access files by encapsulating the file access code in an enterprise resource adapter.
At the moment, the software is an early alpha only, but the team is optimistic to soon release a stable component to the public.