| Specifies information about the resource adapter. The information includes fully-qualified names of class/interfaces required as part of the connector architecture specified contracts, level of transaction support provided, configurable properties for ManagedConnectionFactory instances, one or more authentication mechanisms supported and additional |
| required security permissions. |
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| If there is no authentication-mechanism specified as part of |
| resource adapter element then the resource adapter does not |
| support any standard security authentication mechanisms as part |
| of security contract. The application server ignores the security |
| part of the system contracts in this case. |
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