Administering J2C client connections

The WebSphere® eXtreme Scale connection factory includes an eXtreme Scale client connection that can be shared between applications and persisted through application restarts.

About this task

The client connection includes a management bean that provides connection status information and lifecycle management operations.

Procedure

Maintain client connections.

When the first connection is obtained from the XSConnectionFactory connection factory object, an eXtreme Scale client connection is established to the remote data grid and the ObjectGridJ2CConnection MBean is created. The client connection is maintained for the life of the process. To end a client connection, invoke one of the following events::

Stop the resource adapter. A resource adapter can be stopped, for example, when it is embedded in an application and the application is stopped.
Invoke the resetConnection MBean operation on the ObjectGridJ2CConnection MBean. When the connection is reset, all connections are invalidated, transactions completed, and the ObjectGrid client connection is destroyed. Subsequent calls to the getConnection methods on the connection factory result in a new client connection.

WebSphere Application Server also provides additional management beans for managing J2C connections, monitoring connection pools, and performance.