How to access to the native management API from a deployed application ?

[sewatech]

My goal would be to make a SessionContextListener or any other startup component which could access to the WildFly configuration and setup the JMS destinations, the datasource and some other application related resources.

According to the documentation, the regular way to access to the native management API is this one ;

ModelControllerClient client = ModelControllerClient.Factory.create(InetAddress.getByName("localhost"), 9999);

My issue is that in such a component, I don't know the management port !

Is there a in-container way to access to the native management API. Something like :

ModelControllerClient client = ModelControllerClient.Factory.create();

[jameslivingston]

You need to be careful performing management operations from inside a deployment, especially from code run when the deployment starts. If you perform any operations which may block, AS7 would deadlock and WildFly may be the same. Performing a management operation may require taking a lock which is held by the thread performing your deployment.

If you need to perform management operations during deployment startup, consider running them on another thread so that the deployment does stall. That however means those operations may not be finished by the time requests come in, so you may need a filter for web apps (or similar) using a CountDownLatch to block request handling threads until the management ops are finished.

I'm not aware of a way to get a controller client without specifying the host and port, but there may be one.

[sewatech]

Thanks for the advice, James. I'll take care of that.

[ctomc]

Hi,

you can access mgmt directly from your application.

read http://management-platform.blogspot.com/2012/07/co-located-management-client-for.html for more info.

but same rules that James pointed them out still apply.

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tomaz

[sewatech]

Thanks Tomaz.

It's evicient, even if I would have expected something simpler...

BTW, I should try to learn more on ServiceActivator, it could be useful for other stuffs.

Alexis