6 Replies Latest reply on Sep 16, 2004 6:50 PM by chuckharris

    MDB class loading question

    chuckharris
    chuckharris Sep 13, 2004 5:53 PM

      If I have 2 mdb's, one a test and one a production, that run in the same jboss instance(3.2.5),
      will the test mdb load classes from the jars in its ear and the prod load classes from its ear? Or will there be a class loading problem? Ideally, I'd have a test and production sever and not have to worry but that is not feasable (cost).

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        • 1. Re: MDB class loading question
          genman
          genman Sep 13, 2004 6:54 PM (in response to chuckharris)


          If you have your .ear files bundled correctly you won't have class loading issues.

          The MDB classes should be given different names (obviously). In your .ear put in a jboss-app.xml that defines a distinct class loader.

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          • 2. Re: MDB class loading question
            chuckharris
            chuckharris Sep 13, 2004 11:41 PM (in response to chuckharris)

            Thanks. Each mdb is a different class and listens on a different queue. Currently, I have the additional jars in each ear specified with a module tag in each application.xml. Will that do it?

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            • 3. Re: MDB class loading question
              genman
              genman Sep 14, 2004 11:51 PM (in response to chuckharris)


              Sorry. I didn't mean to say they have to be different names, they can be the same name. I don't know why I said that.

              The stuff in application.xml should be services (.sar) ejb (.jar) and web apps (.war). The libraries get loaded from a classpath setting. There should be docs out there on setting this up.

              http://www.huihoo.com/jboss/online_manual/3.0/ch13s72.html

              Typically, one can only find out if a configuration works by trying it...

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              • 4. Re: MDB class loading question
                chuckharris
                chuckharris Sep 15, 2004 7:45 PM (in response to chuckharris)

                Thanks for the help.
                I followed the link:
                http://www.huihoo.com/jboss/online_manual/3.0/ch13s72.html
                and added a Class-Path : \packages\jboss-3.2.5\server\default\test\jar1.jar \packages\jboss-3.2.5\server\default\test\jar2.jar to the meta-inf\manifest.mf
                in the ejb jar. The ear deployed but did not process messages.
                The queue count increased but there was never any processing or logging or
                anything at all. Adding the classpath to the maniest in the ear caused
                an error - no meta-inf/application.xml found even though it was present in the ear. I tried
                http://www.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ClassLoadingConfiguration
                and added a jboss-app.xml to the ear:

                <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE jboss-app PUBLIC "-//JBoss//DTD JBOSS 3.2//EN"
 "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss-app_3_0.dtd">
<jboss-app>
 <loader-repository>
 dot.com:loader=\packages\jboss-3.2.5\server\default\test\jar1.jar
 </loader-repository>
</jboss-app>
                but I got class not found errors. With the above, I would need to add both jars
                anyway. What do I need to do to get the test mdb to use the ../test/ jars
                and the prod mdb to use the ../prod jars?

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                • 5. Re: MDB class loading question
                  genman
                  genman Sep 15, 2004 9:56 PM (in response to chuckharris)

                  The loader configuration has to be a valid javax.management.ObjectName not a class path.

                  The classpath is configured through the META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file which is created as part of your EJB .jar file. The manifest is not part of the .ear.

                  Your ear should look like:

                  
joe.ear
 joe.jar (ejb stuff)
 joe.sar (MBeans)
 lib/
 apache-library.jar
 apache-library2.jar
 META-INF/
 application.xml
 jboss.xml
 jboss-app.xml

                  Each .jar should have its own jboss.xml and ejb-jar.xml in META-INF.

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                  • 6. Re: MDB class loading question
                    chuckharris
                    chuckharris Sep 16, 2004 6:50 PM (in response to chuckharris)

                    Thanks for the help with this. I got sick of messing with it. I am now running two instances of jboss, one for test and one for prod. Seems to be running fine. Thanks again.

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