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Re: ResourceAdapter.start
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created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/jesper.pedersen">Jesper Pedersen</a> in <i>IronJacamar</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/572804#572804">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><blockquote class="jive-quote"><p>ironjacamar-1.0.0.Beta3 (or a subsequent beta) will become part of  JBoss AS 6 or will only a standalone container be supported for version  1.6 of the connector architecture?</p></blockquote><p>AS 7 -- <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.jboss.org/jbossas/downloads">http://www.jboss.org/jbossas/downloads</a></p><blockquote class="jive-quote"><p>This has never been an issue with any application server</p></blockquote><p>The spec states (5.3.2):</p><p><em><br/></em></p><blockquote class="jive-quote"><p><em>"Prior to using a ManagedConnectionFactory JavaBean, the application server<br/>must create an association between the ManagedConnectionFactory JavaBean and<br/>a ResourceAdapter JavaBean, by calling the setResourceAdapter method on<br/>the ManagedConnectionFactory JavaBean. A successful association is established<br/>only when the setResourceAdapter method on the<br/>ManagedConnectionFactory JavaBean returns without throwing an exception."</em></p></blockquote><p>and (5.3.3):</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><blockquote class="jive-quote"><p><em>"Prior to using an ActivationSpec JavaBean, the application server must create an<br/>association between the ActivationSpec JavaBean and a ResourceAdapter<br/>JavaBean, by calling the setResourceAdapter method on the ActivationSpec<br/>JavaBean. A successful association is established only when the<br/>setResourceAdapter method on the ActivationSpec JavaBean returns without<br/>throwing an exception."</em></p></blockquote><p>Since the start() method may interact with these components the association have to happen before calling the method. IronJacamar is more strict towards the spec than our earlier implementations -- just take a look at the validator chain which will fail resource adapters that doesn't comply to the spec.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>As to the other vendors - you will have to discuss this issue with them.</p></div>
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