Disabling MBeanService from starting up

[raja05]

Hi, Id like to disable a mbean from starting up until I want it to. The actual case is that the MBean references a file that will not be available till the server starts and the client enters the value(which could be many days after the server started, so i cant use a depends on my EAR). Only after the clinet enters values for the file should my mbean start.
I can place the mbean in the jboss-service.xml but would ideally like an attribute that I can turn on/off to enable/disable that service.

I looked up the DTD which indicated that there are no attributes to the tag that will let me enable/disable a service. Is there an alternative way or can i raise an enhancement request for this?

[dimitris]

There is not such feature. The question would be then in what state should your service be and how you want it service to be started?

You can emulate this behaviour by configuring a Barrier and make your service depend on it.

http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=BarrierController

Then you will need to write another service that emits any combination of start/stop notifications where the BarrierController can listen to, start/stop the Barrier and as a result your service.

You EJB could invoke operations on your other service and emit those notifications.

[raja05]

Ah Cool. Thanks Dimitris. Ill explore that option.