Java : JBoss - Spring integration

This page last changed on Apr 07, 2009 by Kees de Kooter

The Goal

Being able to use spring managed beans inside a JBoss application server, without introducing JBoss dependencies in the spring module.

Environment

Bootstrapping spring context

I created an MBean to boot up the spring context.

public interface SpringBootstrapServiceMBean {

    void create() throws Exception;
    void start() throws Exception;
    void stop();
    void destroy();
}

public class SpringBootstrapService implements SpringBootstrapServiceMBean {

    private Log log = LogFactory.getLog(getClass());
    private GenericApplicationContext applicationContext;

    @Override
    public void start() throws Exception {

        log.info("Starting spring application context");

        if (!applicationContext.isActive()) {
            applicationContext.refresh();
            applicationContext.start();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void stop() {
        if (applicationContext.isActive()) {
            applicationContext.close();
        }
        log.info("Stopped spring application context");
    }

    @Override
    public void create() throws Exception {

        log.info("Creating spring application context");

        applicationContext = new GenericApplicationContext();
        XmlBeanDefinitionReader xmlBeanDefinitionReader =
            new XmlBeanDefinitionReader(applicationContext);
        xmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(
                new ClassPathResource("application-context.xml"));
        applicationContext.refresh();

        applicationContext.registerShutdownHook();

    }

    @Override
    public void destroy() {
        if (applicationContext.isActive()) {
            applicationContext.close();
            applicationContext.destroy();
        }
        log.info("Destroyed spring application context");
    }

}

The MBean is recognized by putting a file called spring-service.xml in META-INF.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE server
    PUBLIC "-//JBoss//DTD MBean Service 5.0//EN"
    "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss-service_5_0.dtd">
<server>

    <mbean code="com...SpringBootstrapService"
        name="jboss.service:service=SpringBootstrapService">
        
    </mbean>
    
</server>

Using spring beans in EJBs

Using EJBs in spring beans

Todo

Reference