To interact with IMS™ Transaction
Manager (IMS TM) through the IMS TM
resource adapter, you
can develop your application by using a Rational® or WebSphere® integrated development environment
(IDE), or by coding your application outside of an IDE by using the
J2EE Connector Architecture Common Client Interface (CCI).
An application
uses the IMS TM
resource adapter to
run
an IMS transaction in IMS Transaction Manager. The IMS TM
resource adapter also
supports other types of interactions with IMS TM,
such as executing the IMS commands
that are supported by IMS OTMA.
Consider the type of interaction with IMS TM
when you develop your application. In addition, the IMS TM
resource adapter implements
the J2EE Connector Architecture Common Client Interface (CCI) API,
an application programming interface that you can use in your applications
to communicate with an Enterprise Information System (EIS), IMS TM in this case, through the IMS TM
resource adapter.
Recommendation: When you develop your
application by using an IDE, you can use the provided wizards and
file importers to generate a Java™ EE
application that will run on WebSphere Application
Server. When you
use an IDE to generate your code, you do not need to write the quality
of service (QOS) code or the CCI code that is needed by your Java application. Instead, you can
concentrate on writing code to implement your business logic and function.