JBoss development, A new message was posted in the thread "Standalone JCA: JNDI binding for multiple connection factories...": http://community.jboss.org/message/528621#528621 Author : Scott Marlow Profile : http://community.jboss.org/people/smarlow@redhat.com Message: -------------------------------------------------------------- It is a requirement that a CF implements the javax.resource.Referenceable and java.io.Serializable - so that will always be the case. Hence the current instanceof check.   Dealing with resource adapters that doesn't implement this requirement could be something we could look at down the road - but ideally people should fix their code. That is why we have the validator.       The 1.6 Final Draft November 2009 argues with itself over this:   "20.6.1 Responsibilities In both managed and non-managed environments, registration of a connection factory instance in the JNDI namespace must use either the JNDI Reference or Serializable mechanism. ... "   "6.5.1.3 Additional Requirements ... A connection factory implementation class must implement the interface javax.resource.Referenceable. ... "   An idea could be to create a unique name for each CF, and then create an alias for the unique name that the user will use. That would allow us to move the primary names in the JNDI without having to change any user code. I thinking of java:/eis/, java:global, and other scenarios depending where the JCA container is deployed.   The key is to make it simple for users - a JNDI name should be optional, and in that case we would create an alias based on our default strategy, f.ex. java:/eis/resourceadapter as we have now.   Also we should consider how the deployment of the same resource adapter multiple times - under different names should work. Making the resource adapter archive name part of the unique name could be an idea - we can always use the metadata repository to search for information.       +1 for not having to change any user code due to how we manage the CF jndi binding     I'm not sure about the unique name part though. What is the alias?  Do you mean generically or with something like a LinkRef (I've never used that before so not sure how it works yet). -------------------------------------------------------------- To reply to this message visit the message page: http://community.jboss.org/message/528621#528621