How to set exceptionMethod when using BeanConfiguredAction

[verszou]

I'm trying to find out how to set up an exceptionHandler for an action which uses the BeanConfiguredAction interface.

If I don't provide any message I get an error saying that I need a setter method. Since I could not find out what signature to give it I tried somthing along the lines of

public String getExceptionMethod() {
 return exceptionMethod;
 }

 public void setExceptionMethod(String exceptionMethodName) {
 this.exceptionMethod = exceptionMethodName;
 }

This elimnated the error message, but the exception method was not called.

However if I changed it to use the oldfashioned way by supplying a ConfigTree to the constructor and comment out the BeanConfiguredAction and the getter and setter it was called ok.

Is there a special method signature that is needed to set the exceptionMethod when using BeanConfiguredAction. I tried to look at the samples, but only the ones who are configured through the constructor have exception methods, so I was wondering if there is something in BeanConfiguredAction that prohibits the use of an exception method?

[verszou]

Should probably add that this is running JbossESBServer 4.4.

[kconner]

Unfortunately the BeanConfiguredAction was not written to support the processSuccess/processException methods.

As you can see from http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/labs/labs/jbossesb/trunk/product/rosetta/src/org/jboss/soa/esb/listeners/message/BeanConfigActionProcessor.java, it creates a new instance of the bean on every invocation and ans stubs out the other methods.

It is likely to perform poorly given this and, therefore, you would be better using a normal action interface.

[verszou]

Check. I'll pass that on to the rest of my team. Thank you for the information.