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Ejb3 Basics: Deploying Message Driven Beans

February 2, 2010 / posted in Java, Jboss / 2 Comments

Farewell to lazy auto queue generation in JBoss 5

MDB’s were never so easy to deploy and manage when ejb3 first came out. In Jboss 4, all you have to do was annotate a class with @MessageDriven, sprinkle some meta data here and there, stick it in the oven and wham! Instant “I cant believe I made an MDB!?!” In Jboss AS 5 however, MDB queues are no longer automatically created for your application anymore on boot. An inspection of the MDB llifecycle illustrates why:

  1. MDB deploys
  2. No existing Topic/Queue
  3. Topic/Queue is automatically created
  4. MDB is

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