[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JCA on JBoss] - Re: JCA antipattern? Or not?

"adrian(a)jboss.org" wrote : "bill.burke(a)jboss.com" wrote : JCA may not know anything about MDBs, but isn't MDB the only *standard* way of using inflow? I thought there was no standard way of registering an activation spec and MEF, etc.... | | There is nothing to stop somebody writing their own MEF (POJO based) | and activating their own endpoint if they can get a link to the ResourceAdapter. | | 1) There is an example of this in the new jca prototype | where the MEF is actually implemented via AOP interceptors. | | 2) This is one of the purposes of the RAR (MetaData) Repository | | My preference is to have an abstract MEF implemented by JCA | that EJB2, EJB3, POJO can extend to provide the three pieces of metadata | that change. | | isMethodTransactional(Method); | getClassLoader(); | The hypothetical and non-spec getTransactionTimeout(Method); Yes, this possible in *our* JCA implementation, but the only portable way of leveraging inflow is through MDB. Which was my point. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4021152#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...