[Springframework-developer] Re: [activemq-dev] message driven POJOs, a lightweight JCA container available

[Eugene K. <eu...@md...>]

James Strachan wrote:

>>   Then because it is using WorkManager's I wonder how it fits into 
>> exisitng J2EE container that does not support this API. I'm not 
>> convinced that it would be a good idea if component would do its own 
>> thread management (it woundn't be an issue for a single-noded Tomkat 
>> server, but could cause serious troubles on Weblogic or WebSphere 
>> clusters).
>>
>>   So, it would be a good idea to capture some good practices where to 
>> use and where not to use this component.
> 
> The WorkManager could come from a J2EE container; so the WorkManager is 
> just a property set on the JCAContainer which could be looked up via 
> JNDI. Plus we've a simple implementation based on the Geronimo codebase 
> but with some of the Geronimo dependencies removed to make it easy to 
> use in just Spring - if we were deploying inside Geronimo we could just 
> use its inbuilt & JMX managed implementation. Or a commercial J2EE 
> container would come with its own WorkManager implementation managed by 
> the container.

   I wonder if there would be any use of this container on J2EE 1.3 
compliant containers where is no standard WorkManager API available.

   regards,
   Eugene