MDB & Spring (Newbie question)

[ghosh007]

Hi,
I have a rather large collection of spring beans in my application and I would like to use a MDB in such a way that only ONE instance of the applicationContext is loaded because memory is at a premium.

I understand (from spring docs) the way to do this is to create a beanRef.xml which has references to all the context files and then to use something like

BeanFactoryLocator bfl = SingletonBeanFactoryLocator.getInstance();
BeanFactoryReference bf = bfl.useBeanFactory("<bean id from beanref.xml");


and I can use bf.getBean() inside my MDB.

Also, I create the MDB in the usual way. Is this the right approach? I do not want to create some pitfalls or break any "best practices" in the process.

Thanks

[Mark Fisher]

You could benefit from extending Spring's AbstractMessageDrivenBean support class which loads the Spring context from a location as provided to JNDI. It is described here: http://static.springframework.org/sp...implementation

Alternatively, you might even consider using a message-driven POJO instead (see: http://blog.interface21.com/main/200...-driven-pojos/). Then, the MDP *is* a Spring bean and can be fully configured with dependency injection.

[ghosh007]

I have got it working, well almost. Need a little more help.

I have setup a web project (where the spring beans are) and an EJB project where the MDB resides. I created the applicationContext.xml and the beanRefContext.xml in the source directory of the web project.

The beanRefContext.xml simply points to the applicationContext file like this,

<beans>
 <bean id="MyApp" class="org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext">
   <constructor-arg>
     <list><value>applicationContext.xml</value></list>
   </constructor-arg>
 </bean>
</beans>

And my MDB looks like this,

public void setMessageDrivenContext(MessageDrivenContext messageDrivenContext)	throws EJBException {
		  super.setMessageDrivenContext(messageDrivenContext);
		  setBeanFactoryLocator(ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator.getInstance());
		  setBeanFactoryLocatorKey("MyApp");

	}

	public void onMessage(Message arg0) {
		TextMessage msg=(TextMessage)arg0;
		try {
			System.err.println(" Receive "+msg.getText());
			BeanFactory f=getBeanFactory();
			GreetingServiceImpl b=(GreetingServiceImpl) f.getBean("GreetingServiceImpl");
			System.err.println("Message from Spring Bean="+b.getMessage());
		} catch (JMSException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

	}

When I send a message to the queue, I get this exception:

 <MessageDrivenBean threw an Exception in onMessage(). The exception was:
 java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException.

I have a a feeling my project structure is not quite right. Where should the XML files (context & ref) reside, in the EJB project or in the spring (web) project? Any other thoughts?

Thanks