TransactionManagerLocator has instance before TM is ready

[wolfc]

https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-6028

The TransactionManagerLocator.getInstance() should return a MC bean which depends on the real transaction manager.

[adrian.brock]

No. If you want to do that, i.e. a real dependency, don't use the TransactionManagerLocator.

You should inject it directly, see jca-jboss-beans.xml:

 <!-- The transaction manager -->
 <property name="transactionManager"><inject bean="TransactionManager" property="transactionManager"/></property>

If you wanted to further an just use the anonymous inject, i.e.

@Inject // No name implies match the interface to the only implementation
public void setTransactionManager(TransactionManager tm);

or xml equivalent

 <property name="transactionManager"><inject/></property>

Then we'd need to make MC aware of the instance in transaction-jboss-beans.xml

<bean name="RealTransactionManager">
 <constructor factoryMethod="getTransactionManager">
 <factory bean="TransactionManager"/>
 </constructor>
</bean>

Since the thing called TransactionManager is not really a TM, its a factory for it. :-)

[wolfc]

Bugger, can't get static instances past you. ;-)

I'm going for the anonymous inject.