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1. Re: handle client crash
In practice, it is impossible to differentiate a client crash from a network failure.
You need to establish some kind of a heart beat between the client and the server. If the beat stops you know that something is wrong: whether it's a client crash, network failure, or just a busy client is a whole another issue. You know that the client can't communicate for whatever reason.
In general, the EJB component model doesn't support client callbacks so you'd have to do this with MBeans. -
2. Re: handle client crash
I think that for our purpose it is sufficient to know that the connection to the client is lost, it's not necessary to know about the reason for the problem. Since for several connection layers in jbossmq-service.xml a ping period can be configured, I suppose there must be a way to notify my EJB about a problem, perhaps via the connection layer itself, isn't it? As a workaround we wrote an explicit "ping" with JMS, so if the client doesn't respond to the ping-message we know the connection or the client is down. But that isn't a very sophisticated way, e.g. as the JBoss seems to already ping the client.
Any advice is welcome.
Thanx,
Jochen