[wildfly-dev] How to deal with resource refs when deploying JPA container managed entity managers (WFLY-2841)

[Martin Andersson]

Thanks for your input!

The alias and global naming does actually work!

Br,
Martin Andersson
Java EE developer at www.purplescout.se



On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Jason Greene <jason.greene at redhat.com>wrote:

>
> On Jan 31, 2014, at 10:39 AM, Jason Greene <jason.greene at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Jan 31, 2014, at 8:33 AM, Martin Andersson <
> martin.andersson at purplescout.se> wrote:
> >
> >> I agree. I don't think mapping a datasource in jboss-web.xml is such an
> exotic use case. I should just work.
> >
> > It's not, it's actually implied by the standard, as you can define them
> in web.xml as well. It's a lifecycle problem we need to solve.
> >
> >> Also, there is no hint anywere that there is a property you can set to
> make it work.
> >>
> >> The proprietary jboss namespace is not an option since I want to be
> vendor neutral, but ear/java:app is definitely an option.
> >
> > Another solution specific to EE7 is you can leave the jta-data-source
> undefined in persistence.xml which will use the platforms default data
> source. We allow you to point that anywhere. However, that limits you to
> one, so not really a complete solution.
> >
> > A more complete solution is to use a common global name, and define an
> alias to your deployment in our naming subsystem like so:
> >
> > <bindings>
> >   <lookup name="java:global/env/FooDS"
> lookup="java:jboss/datasources/ExampleDS"/>
> > </bindings>
> >
>
> Actually don't waste your time on this alias option.
> PeristenceUnitServiceHandler's approach to names will prevent it from
> working.
>
> --
>
> Jason T. Greene
> WildFly Lead / JBoss EAP Platform Architect
> JBoss, a division of Red Hat
>
>


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