[jboss-as7-dev] Non java: JNDI bindings and MSC services in AS7

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Monday 11 April 2011 02:12 PM, Carlo de Wolf wrote:
> For the moment we should *not* support this. Not only would it require 
> binding outside of java: space, but also combined proxies. 
By combined proxies, I guess you mean a proxy which is usable for all 
(EJB3.x) exposed views of a bean. Yeah, we don't have that now in AS7. 
And yes, except for backward compatibility, I don't see a usecase for 
combined proxies.

-Jaikiran
> There will be more cases in which we're no longer backwards compatible 
> with AS 5/6.
>
> If we can do MSC services with outside bindings (and we have combined 
> proxies) then it should simply be a service that binds some LinkRefs.
>
> Carlo
>
> On 04/10/2011 07:35 AM, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
>> On Saturday 09 April 2011 10:43 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>>> Bindings outside of "java:" will not be backed my MSC services as we
>>> have no way of controlling what is bound and when.  We certainly could
>>> support binding outside of "java:" but it's not really clear what the
>>> semantics (or use cases) are.
>>>
>>> I examined the example app and didn't find the lookup reference you're
>>> referring to, but wouldn't it be a relative lookup regardless?  Unless
>>> they specified a URL scheme in the first segment that is?
>> First we (used to) allow EJBs to be bound to JBoss specific (non java:)
>> jndi name (Keks and KeksLocal in this example) via the jboss.xml of the
>> ejb jar:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <!DOCTYPE jboss PUBLIC
>>     "-//JBoss//DTD JBOSS 5.0//EN"
>>     "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss_5_0.dtd">
>> <jboss>
>> <enterprise-beans>
>> <session>
>> <ejb-name>GeometricModelBean</ejb-name>
>> <jndi-name>Keks</jndi-name>
>> <local-jndi-name>KeksLocal</local-jndi-name>
>> </session>
>> </enterprise-beans>
>> </jboss>
>>
>> Then we allow a ejb-ref/ejb-local-ref of the bean to point to this jndi
>> name. In this  case the ejb-ref is in the web.xml. The jboss-web.xml of
>> the war allows for specifying the lookup name:
>>
>> <jboss-web>
>> <ejb-ref>
>> <ejb-ref-name>ejb/GeometricModel</ejb-ref-name>
>> <jndi-name>Keks</jndi-name>
>> </ejb-ref>
>> ....
>>
>> <!-- EJB Local References -->
>> <ejb-local-ref>
>> <ejb-ref-name>ejb/GeometricModelLocal</ejb-ref-name>
>> <local-jndi-name>KeksLocal</local-jndi-name>
>> </ejb-local-ref>
>> </jboss-web>
>>
>> That jndi-name/local-jndi-name gets translated to lookup name of the
>> ejb-ref/ejb-local-ref.
>>
>> -Jaikiran
>>
>>
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