Hi Team,

1. Deployment of the "jbossesb-properties.xml".
Looked at the "Meta-data and Filters" section in the programmers Guide, it doesnt talk about the deployment of the "jbossesb-properties.xml", also, the note makes me a bit confused.

Note: you will need to place any changes to your jbossesb-properties.xml file on each ESB instance that is deployed in your environment. This will ensure that all ESB instances can process the same meta-data.

What does the "all ESB instance" mean here? Say, I have deployed the Trailblazer .esb, and also I have jboss.esb, jbossesb.sar deployed in my application server. Does it mean the "Jobss esb instance", instead of the ".esb" deployment.

I think it should be the "JBoss ESB instance", as I didn't see the "jbossesb-properties.xml" in the ".esb" archive. Just think we might need to mention this a bit in the document, and also needs to describe it will affect the whole deployment, mean all the ".esb" archive the in ESB instance.

2. Register other additional filters in the ESB.

Right now, I know if I want to add my custom filter, I need to add the filter in the "jbossesb-properties.xml" in the "jbossesb.sar" archive, take the Trailblazer" as an example again.

Say, my filter is "com.example.trailblazer.MointerFilter", and then I need to add it to the file in the "jbossesb.sar", this kind of making me feel that now the "jbossesb.sar" is depend on the class in the traillblazer.esb archive.

I am looking for is there a way to define my filter in my own archive's jbossesb-properties.xml file, and then the ESB instance will pick it up automatically. I know, using this approach could make some side-effect, I mean it is a global-scope filter, it might make people hard to find all the on-going filters.

Whats the trade-off here?

In fact, I'd like the approach:
I'll add my filters on the jbossesb-properties.xml in my own .esb archive, and then the infrastructure will pick it up automatically? I dont know can we do it right now (JBossESB 4.2.1 GA)?


Thanks
Jeff