0 Replies Latest reply on Oct 16, 2012 6:44 AM by dahm

    Connecting from JBoss 4.2 to JBoss 7.1

    dahm

      Hi,

       

      we would like to create a completely new service using JBoss 7.1 with modern technologies

      such as JPA, JEE6, etc....

      Alas, we have a legacy system running on a JBoss 4.2.2 that is definitely **NOT** portable to JBoss 7. The old system will have to access the new system, i.e. call methods via RMI.

       

      Unfortunately, that is not possible out of the box:

       

      • JBoss 7 does not support the old JNP protocol anymore that was usually used in JBoss 4 for JNDI lookups.
        (See https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS71/JNDI+Reference)
      • We cannot just add the new JARs needed for the new protocol to, say, server/default/lib, because this will cause version conflicts (logging, e.g.) and simply does not work.

       

      I see two possible solutions, which are both complicated and error-prone:

       

      1. We add a new Deployment to JBoss 4 that is packaged with all necessary libraries to access JBoss 7 using and try to use  JBoss' class loader magic in jboss-app.xml to make it work.
      2. We retrofit the old JNP server which can be found in jnpserver.jar as a new JBoss 7 module.

       

      In both cases we would have to bind a Bridge/Adapter object to the JNDI context via JNP that forwards all requests.

       

      Does anyone have experiences in bridging the gap (rather a snake pit in fact) between JBoss 4 to JBoss 7 or a better idea??

       

      Thanks in advance

          Markus