JSR77 : Inter-EJB Relationships

[jeremypitten]

Is there any generic (non-jboss specific) way of identifying which EJBModule deploymentDescriptor element relates to which EntityBean J2EEManagedObject?

Let me put that another way...

I've parsed a EJBModule deployment descriptor and find that it contains a number of elements, as expected the number matches the number of EJB J2EEManagedObjects referenced by the EJBModule. How do I determine which element relates to which EJB ManagedObject?

Why the question?

I have a J2EE Management Client which is trying to build a management model that illustrates both the managedObject containment hierarchy and the managedObject service hierarchy (by service hierarchy I simply mean to illustrate which ejb is dependent on the service of which ejb/resource). The client is building the service hierarchy by parsing the various deployment descriptors and assessing the EJBs and J2EEResources referenced by each EJB.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Jeremy

[mclaugs]

I just changed the code for the 4.0 development branch (HEAD) to make the name of the EJB ManagedObjects the same as the ejb-name from the ejb-jar.xml descriptor.

I will also be part of the 3.2.1 release.

To determine which element relates to which EJB ManagedObject use the ejb-name element and then find the EJB object where :

1) J2EEType=EntityBean
2) name= ejb-name value from descriptor.

[jeremypitten]

Thanks for the response.

Having consulted the jsr77 spec again I see that specification of the ObjectName name keyProperty is left to the platform vendor so this represents a jboss specific solution.

I understand that there are other 'vendor-specifc' ways of determining which deployment descriptor element relates to which ejb managed object I was just hoping there would be a generic workround.

Are there other reasons for changing the ejb ObjectName naming from jndi-name to entity-name?

Thanks again.