[jboss-dev] EJB3 DevForum: Resource adapter file name hard coded into ejb3/MessagingContainer

[Jesper Pedersen]

On Thursday 23 April 2009 09:11:28 Clebert Suconic wrote:
>  > From what i see in the code
>
> (org.jboss.ejb3.mdb.inflow.JBossMessageEndpointFactory.createActivationSpec
>()) the only reason why the rar-name is being used is to get hold of the
> resource adapter MBean for creating the activation spec.
>
> Isn' t there a better way of doing this?
>
> It sounds like a hack to me. the rar-name is already specified on the
> tx-connection-factory, and the MDB has a reference to the factory being
> used, so IMO you shouldn' t need any other reference to the rar. JCA
> should provide you some decent way of getting what you needed without
> adding the hard link.
>
> Jesper:  What do you think?

There are plans to include a JBoss JCA SPI in the new container implementation 
such that these integration issues can be easier fix.

MDBs is of course one of the use-cases.

Best regards,
 Jesper