Doubts on DataSource file?

[vijay_radha]

Hi Xperts,

%JBoss_Home%\docs\examples\jca folder having list of datasource file to different databases like oracle, Sybase, mysql and etc.,

Can I rename the file, for example, oracle-ds.xml into my-oracle-ds.xml and deploy into the deploy folder %JBoss_Home%%\server\default\deploy? Will it work or cause any problem?

And one more doubt

The %JBoss_Home%\docs\examples\jca folder having two xml files for oracle
Oracl-ds.xml and
Oracle-xa-ds.xml.

Why two different files? Any special purpose?

[jonlee]

You can rename the file anything you like as long as the file ends with -ds.xml so JBoss understands it is a datasource configuration file.

Oracle XA is Oracle's implementation of the X/Open Distributed Transaction Processing (DTP) XA interface. If you are using DTP, you will need to use the OracleXA datasource configuration.

In most cases, you would use the standard oracle-ds.xml.