Programmatic Connection Definition Deployment

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Provide a mechanism where ConnectionFactorys/DataSources (Connection Definitions)
can be deployed/undeployed programmatically.

The basic design is as follows:

1) Provide a mechanism to instantiate MetaData for a connection factory.
This information is the same as the -ds.xml deployment format.
The MetaData can be logically divided into at least the following categories:

• RAR/ConnectionDefinition identification
• ManagedConnectionFactory
• Pool
• Security
• ConnectionManager
• Proxy/JNDI binding

2) Write an optimized version of the MetaData for the DataSource deployments
which are really a simplified version of the ConnectionFactory deployments with some
hardwiring.

3) Write a service that deploys the ConnectionFactory (creates MBeans)
from the MetaData and undeploys them based on their id (jndi binding).

4) Convert the ConnectionFactory deployer to construct the MetaData from the -ds.xml
files and invoke the service new service.