trying to get a <something>-ra.xml to work

[jleinawe]

Working on a resource-adapter and I can only get it to integrate with JBoss 7 by editing standalone.xml.

I see references that say you can use a descriptor to integrate a resource-adapter provided it is given a name that ends in "-ra.xml".    Does anyone have an example of this file that works (not looking for a reference to a schema, rather a real working file).

My understanding is that I can drop this "-ra.xml" in the standalone/deployments directory.    When I do this it doesn't seem to do anything for the rar file (also dropped in the standalone/deployment directory).     If I go to the JBoss deployments screen on the console, it does show my attempt at a "-ra.xml" as deployed and enabled.

Also, is it possible to deploy these "-ra.xml" files with the rar?

rar

   ./META-INF/ra.xml

   ./META-INF/myadapter-ra.xml

   ./myadapter.jar

I can't seem to get that to work either.     I'm trying to avoid editing standalone.xml to integrate my resource-adapter.  

I'm new to JBoss 7 so I don't have an older "-ds.xml" file that I can try to convert

[lafr]

See https://community.jboss.org/message/717261#717261.

Unfortunatly this is no longer supported.

You have to use the management api or Web-Application for that purpose.

This was also true for datasources and message queues.

But the configuration with seperate xml files in the deployments folder was added to 7.1.x recently.

[jesper.pedersen]

-ra.xml isn't supported in AS7 - only in IronJacamar/Standalone - since the subsystem:resourceadapters does the same job.

If you want to activate your resource adapter during deployment include a META-INF/ironjacamar.xml file with the configuration.

[jleinawe]

If I use META-INF/ironjacamar.xml, it looks like I have to choose which transaction support to use for the rar (LocalTransaction, NoTransaction, or XATransaction).

So if I want to mix XA and Local transactions, it looks like I can't use META-INF/ironjacamar.xml, is this true?   Unlike standalone.xml, I don't get to add multiple <resource-adapter> elements.

[jesper.pedersen]

Correct. The META-INF/ironjacamar.xml file is focused on the primary deployment configuration and would typically keep the transaction-support element from ra.xml.

But you can add more configurations by using the subsystem:resource-adapters if you want.