With the JCA changes several users complained about the nomenclature that is still in use in Teiid about Connector Bindings. A Connector Binding in Teiid is a connection pool/factory to source systems that contain the data that are integrated using Teiid. In the Container environment the components that provide the connections to the sources are called "Connection Factory". If the connection is to a RDBMS they are called "Data Sources". With JCA changes, Connectors are now JCA connectors. To keep up with same lingo as Containers, we are proposing that we change the nomenclature of Teiid's "Connector Binding" to "Connection Factory". All the external APIs, documents and web pages will be modified for accommodate this change. Although, APIs will be modified immediately for 7.0 release the documents and web will be modified as time allows for 7.0 release. I logged https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/TEIID-1032 Here are some comparisons --------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.2 | 7.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Connector Type | RAR File (JCA Connector) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Connector Binding | Connection Factory --------------------------------------------------------------------- One difference from previous versions of Teiid is, if the Connector binding was to a RDBMS, a single Connector binding represented the connection between the source system (ex:oracle) and Teiid translation layer. In 7.0, the translation layer and source connection are independent. The translation layer is now called "Connection Factory" and source connection to RDBMS is called "Data Source", and Connection Factory will have reference to the Data Source for making the data request calls. I will be writing blog soon on this topic if you are interested. Comments? Thanks Ramesh..