On 25.08.2015 16:05, Romain Manni-Bucau wrote:
>
> For this last case a really elegant solution would be to just reuse
> @Observes to fire the message from the jms "container" listener and
> propagate it to the "user" listener. This would then allow to decouple
> the application listener from JMS.
On 25/08/2015 15:26, Jozef Hartinger wrote:
Agreed. I think we should leverage the existing CDI event/observer
functionality instead of introducing a completely new
delivery mechanism.
Can you please say a bit more about what you have in mind?
Romain suggests using events to invoke the "user" listener from the "JMS
container listener".
That's a useful distinction. Just to clarify the terminology:
"user" listener = listener bean provided by the application
"JMS container listener" = JMS consumer provided by the application server or
resource adapter
There needs to be one consumer for every listener bean since the two need to have the same
lifecycle, and also so we can
implement JMS queue sematics which require that a message from a queue is delivered to one
and only one listener.
The transaction needs to be started by the consumer before invoking the listener and ended
after the listener returns.
This allows the acknowledgement of the message (which is performed by the consumer) to
take place in the same
transaction as is used by the listener's method.
Currently I'm proposing that the "consumer" invokes the "listener"
by a simple method call. I suppose instead of simply
invoking the method it could fire a synchronous event, which only the associated listener
instance would receive, but
I'm not sure what the benefit of this would be. Since JMS semantics are very different
from CDI event semantics I think
there's a danger that this will be confusing, since the user might think they were
getting CDI event semantics, but they
were actually getting JMS semantics.
Since this is a bit of a FAQ, it might be useful to explore the differences between the
two semantics, but currently
they seem profoundly different to me. That's why my proposals are built on the CDI
bean lifecycle model but not the CDI
event observer model.
Nigel