To properly manage JMS connections and the like we need the JCA implementation. Though until then I was gonna focus on the MDB hosting side, where we can treat MDBs as just like a special stateless session bean.
I've had a hunt around the code & it looks like the stateless session beans stuff is in the core module in o.a.g.ejb.cache, e.g. StatelessInstanceFactory right? First question - has anyone tried to deploy any stateless SBs into Geronimo yet? I couldn't find any test cases using it - is there something elsewhere I should be looking at?
Once we can deploy stateless SBs then I'd have thought doing MDBs should be similar yes? Basically I was just gonna do something extremely simple for now - write a dummy little JMS subscriber MBean that can mock the JCA connection manager until the JCA part is ready, and then get some MDBs working. Then folks could try hooking the mail stuff into the same MDB service.
So does this all sound like a reasonable plan? Anyone working on this stuff or on the EJB side of things care to correct any of my mistaken assumptions.
James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/
