You can create a resource-adapter-config for a resource-adapter (RAR) before deploying the RAR.
resource-adapter-config has configuration information of the RAR that will be used during RAR deployment (or start). Hence it is allowed and necessary to be able to create resource-adapter-config before deploying the RAR.
Above requirements does not apply for connection-pools. and hence you cannot create connector connection pool before deploying the RAR. Is there a reason why you want to create the connection pool before deploying the RAR ?
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