We have a JBoss 4.0.5.GA server instance (server A) communicating with a non-clustered JBoss Messaging instance (server B) via scoped deployment and modified JCA datasource descriptor as outlined in:

http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBossMessagingUser_Enabling_access_to_remote_JBoss_Messaging_instance

All MDBs in server A deploy and pick up messages fine. The problem we have is in sending messages from Server A using a managed connection factory.

With the following code, messages appear to be sent but do not show up in the destination:

InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();
cf = (ConnectionFactory)ic.lookup("java:/JmsXA");
Connection connection = cf.createConnection();
connection.start();
Session session = conn.createSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);
ic.close();
Queue queue = session.createQueue("testQueue");
producer = session.createProducer(queue);
tm = session.createTextMessage(txt);
producer.send(tm);

If we tail the log on server B (JBM), we do see the session.start() as well as session.close() on subsequent runs. I assume the session is being cached. However, even though there are no errors, we see no messages in the queue.

The same code *will* send messages properly if we get the ConnectionFactory with a hack:

InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();
Object object = ic.lookup("java:/DefaultJMSProvider");
ic.close();
InitialContext ic2 = (InitialContext)object.getClass().getMethod("getInitialContext", null).invoke(object, null);
ConnectionFactory cf = (ConnectionFactory) ic2.lookup("XAConnectionFactory");
ic2.close();

Is there a way to send messages from within the container with a managed connection factory?