Integrating with Lotus Notes. - Weblogic

Hi,

I need to interface our J2EE app with Notes/Domino, hence am posting to thi=
s group
to find some answers. We are building a J2EE App which will run on a App Se=
rver
on a Solaris Box.This app will need to interface(read/Write) with a Notes S=
erver
running on some other box. While researching ways to communicate with the D=
omino
Server from the App server,heres what i found:

1)Lotus has the LDDJ driver which provides JDBC-like functionality , but th=
is
Driver is type-2, requiring a Notes client on the App Server.This is a no-g=
o as
I think notes has no client for Solaris...

2)Another way ,from what i read in the "Building a J2EE Application with Do=
mino
and WebSphere" red-Book, is to include two jar files(ncsco.jar and notes.ja=
r in
your app servers classpath) and then use the Java API provided by these Jar=
s to
talk to the Notes Server. This appears to be do-able becoz there doesnt see=
m to
be any platform-dependency. Am i missing something?

3)Another way is to use the JCA architecture to write a resouce adaper to N=
otes.
But what i still cant figure out is how will the two servers communicate.I =
could
write a resource adapter and all that, but in the end...how are my java cla=
sses
going to communicate with the Notes Server.

All help is sincerely appreciated.Thanks in advance!

Vik.