I'm evaluating migration from Weblogic to JBoss. The application (ppackaged in an ear file with 7 war files), depends on a startup class to initialize the spring container and populate our cache.
When I look for ways to create a startup class, the documentation is a bit on the lean side. From the forums, I gather I need to make a sar file (which is hard to find docs on) and in the sar i need a class extends the interfaces ServiceBean. Well, that class dones not seem to exist in the new version of JBOSS, hence, I can not load my app (my spring context is not initialized, and my cache is not initialized). Without spring and cache, I can not proceed.
Question:
1 - Is ther any other way to create a LifeCycle type class that listens for the startup/shutdown
2 - is there some simple docs on creating a SAR (I think this must be a JBoss thing, it does not exist in WebLogic)
Thanks