make Mina a JCA adapter
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Key: DIRMINA-660
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRMINA-660
Project: MINA
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Core
Reporter: Jürgen Weber
Priority: Critical
Fix For: 3.0.0-M1
I think, with its simple but powerful API Mina is the framework of choice to
develop network based, stand-alone applications. But right now you cannot use
Mina within an application server in a JEE spec compliant way. The JEE spec
implicates that for applications needing socket connections (at least inbound)
or creating threads you need a JCA resource adapter.
So I suggest that one could also use Mina as JCA Resource Adapter framework.
In this use case it would plug into an application server as JCA adapter and
not create any threads but rather use JCA workmangers.
The classname of the concrete IoHandlerAdapter would be an attribute of
activation-config. The Mina Adapter would either trigger a message driven bean
or would handle everything in the IoHandlerAdapter code (which could call an
EJB, but I am not sure of this).
E.g. one could deploy Apache FTP server as JCA Adapter in Geronimo and have
only one Java process to monitor. Also directory server or the derby listener
could be better integrated in an application server as JCA adapter.
I think Mina as JCA adapter could be the framework of many use cases. The Mina
framework would shield the application programmer from the rather complex JCA
API.
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