EJB2 dependencies supported in JBoss AS 5.1?

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Dependencies can be demanded on a particular EJB3 service in JBoss AS 5.1. Please advise if this is also supported for EJB2 services in JBoss AS 5.1.

JBoss AS 4.2.3 appears to support this, in that we could declare a dependency in the jboss.xml such as:

<depends>jboss.j2ee:jndiName=Dependent,service=EJB</depends>

However I now notice that, when I depend this in JBoss 5.1, I get a deployment time error, which indicates I cannot use this dependency.

I have attached the log from JBoss 4.2.3 and JBoss 5.1 for comparison. Logs and an example to reproduce are included in the attached zip.

Is this a bug? If so, what is the suggested workaround?

[wdfink]

I think this is related to https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBPAPP-2419

I suppose you have to declare the name of the application where you depend on like this:

<jmx-name>jboss.j2ee:module=my.jar,service=EjbModule</jmx-name> 

And the dependency

<depends>jboss.j2ee:module=my.jar,service=EjbModule</depends>

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Thank you! This now works for us.

Also I noticed the problem doesn't happen in JBoss 6 release. I think this is maybe fixed by https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBAS-7789.

For those interested, in our case we got it to work by using 2 jars within an ear, one jar containing what we need to depend on, with it's jboss.xml specifying the jmx-name. The other jar has the dependency.