MBeans and Jboss3.2RC2 problem - little help?

[jbone]

Just downloaded RC2 and starting up gives me a problem:

I have an MBean that starts a server socket and waits for connections. In previous versions of jboss it worked ok, but in RC2 the deployment hangs - it runs the start method and doesnt return (to the main deployment).

I've seen that recent MBeans extend ServiceMBean - is this necessary? My classes worked fine as the following:

interface SocketServerMBean{
init()
start()
stop()
destroy()
}

class SocketServer implements SocketServerMBean, Serializable {

//stuff

start(){
ServerSocket gets started in here, waits for conns
}

//stuff
}

but Im thinking that the interface needs to extend ServiceMBean?
where do I get info on that interface?
any examples of code?

thanks

[jbone]

just changed the interface for ServiceMBean - still having the same problem.

do i need to implement preRegister?

[jbone]

I found out that this is caused by the start() method having a ServerSocket.accept() in it. I gather that this will block.

There have been some posts about how to properly thread the ServerSocket, but I am trying and a little perplexed - I can create the socket, but can't seem to register it with JNDI (it gives me a serialization error)

I think a bunch of people have done this kind of thing - can any one of them point me in the right direction? I don't want to use a servlet if I don't have to.

[genman]

You need to create your own thread which handles the accept calls.

If any of the start/stop methods block, then JBoss can't start/stop correctly.