registering a JMS MDB works through annotations, not through ejb-jar.xml

[Emmanuel Touzery]

Hello,

    I'm having trouble registering an MDB through the ejb-jar.xml.
    If I have the annotations on the MDB, like so:

@MessageDriven(activationConfig = {
   @ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "destinationType", 
propertyValue = "javax.jms.Queue"),
   @ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "destination", 
propertyValue = "tmsAlertQueue")},
       mappedName = "jms/tmsAlertQueue")
public class AlertMessageHandler extends 
BaseMessageHandler<AlertBatchDto> implements MessageListener {

    Everything works fine. But I'd rather have the annotations in the 
ejb-jar.xml (so I can turn them on or off through config). I have this 
(and those exact annotations worked on glassfish 3.1.2.2) =>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ejb-jar xmlns = "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee";
         version = "3.1"
         xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
         xsi:schemaLocation = "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee 
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/ejb-jar_3_1.xsd";>
    <enterprise-beans>
        <message-driven>
<display-name>AlertMessageHandler</display-name>
            <ejb-name>AlertMessageHandler</ejb-name>
<mapped-name>jms/tmsAlertQueue</mapped-name>
<ejb-class>tms.tms_core.handlers.alerts.AlertMessageHandler</ejb-class>
<message-destination-type>javax.jms.Queue</message-destination-type>
            <activation-config>
                <activation-config-property>
<activation-config-property-name>destination</activation-config-property-name> 

<activation-config-property-value>tmsAlertQueue</activation-config-property-value> 

                </activation-config-property>
                <activation-config-property>
<activation-config-property-name>destinationType</activation-config-property-name> 

<activation-config-property-value>javax.jms.Queue</activation-config-property-value> 

                </activation-config-property>
            </activation-config>
        </message-driven>
</ejb-jar>

    But that doesn't work. I know tomee parses the ejb-jar.xml, because 
if I put garbage in it, I get an error. I'm testing in arquillian right 
now actually, and registering the ejb-jar through shrinkwrap like so:

                .addAsWebInfResource("WEB-INF/ejb-jar.xml", "ejb-jar.xml")

    I've tried modifying the ejb-jar root element for JEE7, like so:

<ejb-jar xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee";
        version="3.2"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee 
http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/ejb-jar_3_2.xsd";>

    And also adding the metadata-complete attribute (both to true and 
false), to no avail. The log file doesn't tell me much.

    Any idea what I can do next?

    Thank you!

emmanuel