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1. Re: JBOSS 3 JCA-XA Configuration
davidjencks Aug 20, 2002 5:13 PM (in response to davidmurphy)> Hi - we have a number of customers trying to figure
> out how to configure XA support using our MS SQL
> driver JSQLConnect (which supports full XA via MS
> DTC)
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> 1. Can you point me to the JBOSS 3 doc that spells
> out the detailed config steps required?
Unfortunately the docs are all somewhat out of date as I keep improving the configuration system. There's some info in the quickstart guide. Basically, if you have an XADataSource based driver the simplest is to put it in server/[config]/lib, make sure jboss-xa-wrapper.rar is in server/[config]/deploy, and put a jsqlconnect-ds.xml (3.2 or 4) or jsqlconnect-service.xml (3.0.1) file in server/[config]/deploy
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> 2. If the driver vendor supplies a JCA RAR connector
> can JBOSS 3.0 deply that RAR or is XA support still
> handled via the JBOSS supplied JCA XA wrappers? If
> the vendors RAR can be used where is the doc that
> describes that process please?
IMO supplying a .rar is %10,000 the better way to go, especially if you implement "error sorting" so errors that kill the connection notify the app server through ConnectionEventListener. ( I guess XADataSource is supposed to do this to, but I haven't actually encountered one yet). If you have a .rar, looking at firebird-service.xml is the best model to copy (I recently updated cvs head to a neater configuration). For JBoss 3.2 and 4, the *-ds.xml files provide a simple way to configure a wrapped XADataSource.
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> 3. Once we get it all figured out how do we send back
> to JBOSS (what email or process?) the information so
> that it may be included in the JBOSS doc going
> forward? We will also include the doc in our
> downloadable distribution.
Posting a patch to the patch tracker at sourceforge, emailing jboss dev list with the config as an attachment, and sending it directly to me at
davidjencks@directvinternet.com all work. I like to keep the versions in jboss cvs since they can get tagged with jboss releases. Since I keep changing the configuration this gives a little hope of finding the right version.
Thanks
david jencks
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> Thanks
> David Murphy
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