[pferraro]

gbrown1  wrote:

It is a Spring annotation (org.springframework.stereotype.Service). However, I'm not sure that's the source of the problem. For example, this code works fine:

@Service

public class ClusterMembershipService

{

  @Resource(lookup = "java:jboss/clustering/group/default")

  private Group group = null;

  ...

}

Greg

This only works because the service providing the Group happened to already be started - and the static jndi binding created.  However, this service may stop at any time if your deployment hasn't established itself as a dependency (thereby keeping it up).

Use the deployment descriptor approach I mentioned earlier in the thread.  This will both ensure the appropriate dependencies are established to your deployment and allow Spring to process the @Resource annotation using the "java:comp/env" namespace with a simple JNDI lookup.

[gbrown1]

That makes sense - thanks for the explanation!