Easiest way to register MBean with JBoss WildFly 8.1

[jeffreymetcalf]

Hi All,

I was wondering if someone could direct me to the easiest way to register an MBean with JBoss WildFly 8.1.  I understand that previous versions of JBoss AS supported the following EJB3 extension annotation:

org.jboss.ejb3.annotation.Management

This was used to mark certain EJBs (annotated with @Service) to be automatically registered with the MBean server.  I cannot find this annotation in jboss-ejb3-ext-api-2.1.0.jar or in any other of the WildFly 8.1 standard modules.  I assume this means it is no longer supported.  This was a very nice quick way to make an EJB available to be managed through the JMX console.

Is there an equivalent way to do this in WildFly 8.1?  I was unable to find any documentation related to it, so I was hoping someone here has good practical knowledge in that area.

Cheers,

-Jeff

[fharms]

We had the exact same problem when we upgraded from JBoss AS 5 to Wildfly, and as you already found out this is not supported anymore

The solution we come up with, was to write a small utility class that could registry mbeans, something like this

public static void registerMBean(Object mBean, String simpleName) {
        try {
            final String mbeanName = "com.xxx.yyy:type=" + simpleName;

            if (isApplicationMBeanRegistered(simpleName)) {
                log.warn(String.format("MBean was already registered from the MBeanServer: %s. Unregistering it first.", mbeanName));
                unregisterMBean(simpleName);
            }

            ManagementFactory.getPlatformMBeanServer().registerMBean(mBean, new ObjectName(mbeanName));
            log.info(String.format("MBean registered to the MBeanServer: %s", mbeanName));
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
 }

Cheers,

- Flemming