Hi,

Is there a way to use the Management API without persisting changes in the server config xml?

I'll explain why I'm asking this.

We're developping an application that will run in JBoss.

The application will need to use and configure some JBoss components, but we want the application to be master of it's own configuration.

In this way we can decouple our implementation from the server we're running on. If we would like to use another server (which we probably wont) we have the possibility to do this.

To point out the problem I'm having, I'll explain it by using an example.

Suppose that our application will use datasources. Therefore it has it's own configuration file, containing the configuration of the datasources.

At startup the application will run through this configuration file and create all the datasources in JBoss using the Management API. The created datasources will be persisted in the config of JBoss. And there is our problem. At this moment our application is no longer master of configuration and we could no longer keep the two configuration files in sync (e.g. at server crash).

We think of two solutions for this issue:

- at startup first, delete all the datasources from JBoss using the Management API, then create them again based on the application configuration

- don't persist the changes made by the Management API

Off course we prefere the second option, but how can we achieve this?

Thanks in advance for your help!