[jboss-as7-dev] ExternalContextMBean replacement?

[Brian Stansberry]

I've heard a few times of people looking for a replacement of the 
functionality provided by the old ExternalContextMBean in AS v < 7.

1) Are there any workarounds or alternate approaches that can provide a 
similar thing? David Lloyd mentioned "maybe via @Startup @Singleton with 
a bind statement or something...". I'm not sure if bind() does the 
trick, since AIUI what's needed is a new subcontext, not a binding in an 
existing context.

2) If not, what would it take to allow binding a reference to an 
external context into the server JNDI tree? I had a very brief look at 
this, and it seems context's are actually MSC services that follow a 
particular service naming pattern. Is some sort of SPI to solidify that 
contract an option?

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Brian Stansberry
Principal Software Engineer
JBoss by Red Hat