Hi all,
I have joined a company which has developed a several EJB's (EJB 2.1) runnning under JBoss 4.2.3.GA. My task is to migrate these EJBs (all of them just Stateless Session Beans) from EJB 2.1 to EJB 3.0.
I have completed already an EJB migration and now I am in stack with interceptors. The thing is we have one interceptor which extends org.jboss.ejb.plugins.AbstractInterceptor. This interceptor initializes some of EJBs on JBoss startup. I have tried many approaches but it looks like interceptors work only when an EJB created or it's method called. I need an interceptor to be called at the moment EJB is statrted or after all EJBs has been started and before my application starts work. I need this to initialize some functionality.
I am not familiar with EJB 2.1 but it seems to me that interceptors work differently than in EJB 3.0. In EJB 2.1 all interceptors are defined in standardjboss.xml, EJB 3.0 defines them in ejb3-interceptors-aop.xml. I tried to create my interceptor and define it in both files. I tried also to extend AbstractInterceptor, or implement org.jboss.aop.advice.Interceptor, or use @AroundInvoke - @Interceptors annotation. But the result is the same - my interceptor is not called on EJB start (that correspondes to the "STARTED EJB" message in log but only when I create it directly and call a method.
I have created a JBoss service which puts a notification listener that waits for JBoss start and then creates EJBs I need. The required functionality implemented in static block code, so it runs when I create the EJB. But it looks for me like incorrect solution.
Is there any solution for that?
Thank you