The following table describes the resource connection and transaction management functionality and reference locations.

Table 3-1 Resource connection and transaction management functionality and reference locations

Functionality	Reference location
Overview of resource connections and transaction management	3.2
Resource connections	3.3
Managing transactions	3.4
Resource sign-on method	3.5
Connecting to a database	3.6
Connecting to a database queue	3.7
Outbound connection with OpenTP1 (SPP or TP1/Message Queue)	3.8
Inbound connection with OpenTP1	3.9
Connection with Cosminexus JMS Provider	3.10
Connecting to the SMTP server	3.11
Using the JavaBeans resources	3.12
Connection with other resources	3.13
Functionality for performance tuning	3.14
Functionality for fault tolerance	3.15
Other resource adapter functionality (For the resource adapters conforming to the Connector 1.5 specifications)	3.16
Connection pool clustering functionality	3.17
Connection test for resources	3.18
Functionality for operations in the firewall environment	3.19
Notes on starting transactions with EJB client applications	3.20