[jboss-as7-dev] Binding MDBs to resource adapters by configuration

[Panzer, Robert]

Hi,

currently binding a message driven bean to another resource adapter than the default resource adapter requires adding a JBoss specific annotation @org.jboss.ejb3.annotation.ResourceAdapter to the MDB.

I think there should also be a way to establish this binding using a specific deployment descriptor to allow for deploying portable JEE applications to JBoss 7.

Looking at the code I think that this should go into the jboss-ejb3.xml.
As far as I can see the parsing code in jboss-metadata-ejb only parses a skeleton document that looks like this:
<jboss xmlns="http://www.jboss.com/xml/ns/javaee">
                <enterprise-beans>
                                <ejb>
                                </ejb>
                </enterprise-beans>
</jboss>

So if I have not overseen anything there is no way of establishing this binding.

I'd like to contribute to this part but would like to have an opinion how this file should look like in the end.
As a resource adapter binding only makes sense for MDBs I would prefer something like this:

<jboss xmlns="http://www.jboss.com/xml/ns/javaee">
                <enterprise-beans>
                                <message-driven>
                                                <ejb-name>MyEjbName</ejb-name>
                                                <resource-adapter>myConnector.rar</resource-adapter>
                                </message-driven>
                </enterprise-beans>
</jboss>

What do you think about this?

Kind regards,
Robert

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