Hi there,
I'm pretty new to JBoss and am trying to work out how to override/set activation-config-properties on an MDB at deploy time, specifically without having to embed the properties inside the ear file itself.
My understanding of the places you can set/override activation config properties are as follows:
code annotations in the MDB itself
elements in the ejb-jar.xml file in the ear file
elements in the jboss.xml file in the ear file
I'm looking to be able to set some activation-config-properties (e.g. for the host/port of the messaging provider) from outside of the ear file so that deployers of this MDB ear don't need to dig into the ear file itself to add/modify files that are in there before deploying it.
The closest I've been able to find on instructions for how to do this was an article here
http://community.jboss.org/wiki/HowToConfigureEJB3MDBsForIBMWebsphereMQ
This seems rather complicated, and still requires specific information to be set inside the ear file to point the deployment of the MDB to use this custom Domain/interceptor which I'd like to avoid if possible.
I have limited experience with other application servers, but know that Apache Geronimo allows you to deploy an application with a 'plan' file that can be used to to set values like this.
I'm currently planning to deploy on JBoss 5.1 and above, so a common soluion that works on all of them would be great.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Martin.
