property replacement in mbean descriptor files

[georgeisangry]

I have an mbean descriptor file with the following:

<attribute access="read-write"
 getMethod="getReminderFrequency"
 setMethod="setReminderFrequency">
 <description>blah</description>
 <name>ReminderFrequency</name>
 <type>long</type>
 <descriptors>
 <persistence/>
 <default value="${app.reminderFrequency}" />
 </descriptors>
 </attribute>

The problem is that the string property replacement is not happening.
It looks like the JBossXMBean clas is using a default PropertyEditor
instead of using the StringPropertyReplacer.

what's the easiest way to get the property replacement to happen in this
context? I don't really want to write a PropertyEditor for longs.

[georgeisangry]

looking through the code it looks like I can create my own sax parser to the replacement by setting the
property xmbdan.metadata.sax.parser .

Does this sound reasonable?

[genman]

Sounds interesting.

I suspect it might be good to supply a patch for this as well to JBoss. Although, in JBoss 5.0 the XMBean stuff might eventually get replaced with a different descriptor system.