Custom service seems to be ignoring <depends> tag

[toddjtidwell]

I've written a several custom services according to all the examples. This has worked fine for me and has made my life a much better place. However, I have found myself duplicating code, so in an effort to avoid that, I did this:

public abstract class CustomerService
{

}

[toddjtidwell]

Well, that was stupid. Hit submit instead of preview.

Here we go again:

I've written several custom services. However, I'd like them all to extend one base class, like so:

public abstract class CustomService
extends ServiceMBeanSupport
{
 //... Some sort of shared functionality
}

Then, I extend that for my actual service, like so:

public interface MyServiceMBean
extends ServiceMBean
{

}

public class MyService
extends CustomService
{

}

In my jboss-service.xml I have:

<mbean code="test.MyService" name="test:service=MyService">
 <depends>test:service=ServiceIDependOn</depends>
</mbean

Now, this all deploys incredibly well and functions if I deploy it while JBoss is running. However, if I restart JBoss, MyService does *not* wait for it's dependency to deploy. However, if I stop extending CustomService, this all works fine.

Any ideas?

[genman]

public class MyService
extends CustomService
 *IMPLEMENTS* CustomServiceMBean
{

}

Not sure it matters, but I think you need the implements part.

[toddjtidwell]

Good catch. Actually, that was a typo on my part. You're right, I do need the implements bit. However, the problem still exists.

It deploys fine if I copy the sar in while JBoss is running, but if I start JBoss with the sar already in the deploy directory, it starts the service without honoring the depends.

[toddjtidwell]

Just a small update to this:

It seems I was incorrect in assuming that this was working correctly during a hot deploy. It doesn't matter whether it's a hot or cold deploy, if my dependencies are not deployed, the custom service that depends on them still deploys as long as it extends another object. The second I remove the inheritance, it obeys dependencies again.

So, the following code obeys the dependencies:

public class MyService
implements MyServiceMBean
{

}

However, this does not:

public class MyService
extends SuperService
implements MyServiceMBean
{

}