Use nested deployment for resource adapter

[rudivankeirsbilck]

Hi all,

I have looked at several examples now (including http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBossJCAMessageInflowExample and the once that come with the commercial documentation) and these all deploy the .rar file separate from the actual components using the adapter.

I was trying to add my .rar in my .ear file like:
.ear
.ear/APP-INF/lib/classes.jar (contains all .class files including the resource adapter)
.ear/META-INF
.ear/META-INF/application.xml
.ear/META-INF/jboss-app.xml
.ear/logic.jar (contains business logic components)
.ear/message.jar (contains message driven beans that wil use the resource adapter)
.ear/.rar
.ear/.rar/META-INF/ra.xml

When I deploy the ear file, I am not seeing any logging for the deployment of the resource adapter and also I am getting:

14:47:52,510 ERROR [JBossMessageEndpointFactory] Starting failed jboss.j2ee:binding=message-inflow-driven-bean,jndiName=local/BlueSpaceSMTPListener@2070587,plugin=invoker,service=EJB
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: Cannot locate resource adapter deployment null; - nested throwable: (javax.management.InstanceNotFoundException: jboss.jca:name='null',service=RARDeployment is not registered.)

which indicates that the resource adapter is not correctly deployed.

I was wondering, is nested deployment for resource adapters supported at all?

Have I used the appropriate structure that is required by nested deployment for resource adapters?

Thank you,

Rudi.

[rudivankeirsbilck]

Actually, the structure of the ear is:
.ear
.ear/APP-INF/lib/classes.jar (contains all .class files including the resource adapter)
.ear/META-INF
.ear/META-INF/application.xml
.ear/META-INF/jboss-app.xml
.ear/logic.jar (contains business logic components)
.ear/message.jar (contains message driven beans that wil use the resource adapter)
.ear/bluespace-ds.xml
.ear/bluespace-jms-ds.xml
.ear/ra-ds.xml
.ear/.rar
.ear/.rar/META-INF/ra.xml

and jboss.app.xml is:

<jboss-app>
 <module>
 <service>bluespace-ds.xml</service>
 </module>
 <module>
 <service>bluespace-jms-ds.xml</service>
 </module>
 <module>
 <service>ra-ds.xml</service>
 </module>
</jboss-app>

and ra.xml is:

<connection-factories>
 <no-tx-connection-factory>
 <jndi-name>BlueSpace/POP3</jndi-name>
 <adapter-display-name>BlueSpace POP3 Adapter</adapter-display-name>
 <config-property name="PollingInterval" type="java.lang.Integer">60000</config-property>
 </no-tx-connection-factory>
</connection-factories>

[adrian.brock]

And where exactly in the JBoss docs or the spec for that matter
did you find APP-INF?

[rudivankeirsbilck]

Dunno actually. My build script has done that for the last 2 years I guess and it has always worked. The APP-INF/lib/classes.jar contains all classes I need in the nested deployed jars. So in fact, the nested .jar (and also .war that I did not mention) only contain the deployment descriptors for the session beans.

I have made some progress since... had a typo in a setter method of one of the properties of the resource adapter. I discovered that when I used the same structure as the examples (i.e. not use nested deployment).

Currently, the app deploys but I cannot see my MDB connecting to the resource adapter, although I have logging in the activtion method.

Rudi.