Using EJB injection in JMX / MBean

[vri_97]

Hi,
Is it possible to use @EJB in JMX / MBean service?

public class HelloService implements HelloServiceMBean{

@EJB
private static Hello hello;

public void start() {
hello.sayHello()
}
}
I have check in JNDI view, and HelloBean is already registered.
And I have set the dependency of the HelloService to HelloBean in jboss-service.xml.
somehow, the injection is not working. hello is always return null
Does anyone know the cause, I try to search in this forum regarding the issue, and found nothing.
Thanks
Regards,
Ferry

[salewski]

The @EJB annotations are part of the EJB 3.0 spec, which is separate from the JMX spec. The @EJB annotation is for use by EJBs, the resource being injected by the EJB container. MBeans have to look up resources in JNDI "manually".

However, if you're not allergic to vendor extensions, you may be interested in the JBoss @Service EJB extension:

http://docs.jboss.com/ejb3/app-server/reference/build/reference/en/html/jboss_extensions.html

[vri_97]

Thank you for the explanation.
After some thinking, I guess is it's because MBean was created before the EJBs. And by right, the EJB at the time of MBean creation is not available yet, so it can not be injected.
Though I put dependency on EJBs, it only delay to call the start() method, rather than the create().