1 Overview

This chapter provides an overview of Oracle Application Server Integration InterConnect (OracleAS Integration InterConnect) adapter for JCA (JCA adapter). It contains the following topics:

• Chapter1, "JCA Adapter Overview"

• Chapter1, "JCA Adapter System Requirements"

JCA Adapter Overview

The JCA adapter consists of a bridge and a run-time agent. The bridge communicates with the resource adapter through adapter framework. Adapter framework is a WSDL JCA provider that can communicate with any JCA compliant resource adapter. It makes the WSIF invocation to resource adapter and pass the information coming from bridge.

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JCA Adapter System Requirements

The following sections describe the JCA adapter system requirements:

• Hardware Requirements

• Software Requirements

Hardware Requirements

Table 1-1 lists the hardware requirements for installing the JCA adapter.

Table 1-1 Hardware Requirements

Hardware	Windows 2000	UNIX
Disk Space	400 MB	400 MB
Memory	512 MB	512 MB

Software Requirements

The following sections describe the JCA adapter software requirements:

• Operating System Requirements

• JRE Requirements

Operating System Requirements

Table 1-2 lists the operating system requirements for installing the JCA adapter.

Table 1-2 Operating System Requirements

Operating System	Version
HP Tru64	HP Tru64 UNIX (Alpha) 5.1b
HP-UX	HP-UX (PA-RISC) 11.11, 11.23
IBM AIX	AIX (POWER) version 5.2
Linux (x86)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3.0 SuSE SLES8, SLES9
Sun SPARC Solaris	Sun SPARC Solaris 2.8 and 2.9
Microsoft Windows	Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 (SP3 or higher)

JRE Requirements

OracleAS Integration InterConnect uses Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4, which is installed with its components.