US 7,484,224 B2
Adapter deployment without recycle
Timothy Potter, Denver, Colo. (US); Mitch Upton, Highlands Ranch, Colo. (US); Christa Golding, Littleton, Colo. (US); and Rick DeGrande, Littleton, Colo. (US)
Assigned to BAE Systems, Inc., Redwood Shores, Calif. (US)
Filed on Mar. 27, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/400,822.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/377303, filed on May 02, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2004/0010631 A1, Jan. 15, 2004
Int. Cl. G06F 9/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 719—328  [717/102] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for deploying an integration adapter, comprising:
a resource adapter having components that conform to a connector standard;
an Enterprise archive file containing class files for the components, such that the resource adapter can be deployed in a single step and;
a class loader adapter to allow classes at the root of the Enterprise archive (EAR) file to be shared by another adapter
an interface adapted to allow the resource adapter to be deployed without recycling the system and;
wherein the resource adapter shares at least one class at the root of the Enterprise archive file with an integation adapter and an event router;
wherein the enterprise archive file includes a Web Archive (WAR) file and a resource adapter archive (RAR) file which refer to the classes which are stored in a shared JAVA archive (JAR) file at the root the EAR and wherein neither of the RAR or WAR files contain any shared files; and;
wherein the system runs on at least one procesor.