MDB deployment in OC4J

1. Create the MDB(normal java class with @MessageDriven annotation). Set the ActivationConfigs.

@MessageDriven(
activationConfig = {
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName="connectionFactoryJndiName", propertyValue="jms/TopicConnectionFactory"),
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName="destinationName",
propertyValue="jms/demoTopic"),
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName="destinationType", propertyValue="javax.jms.Topic"),
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName="messageSelector", propertyValue="RECIPIENT = 'MDB'") } )

2. Create EJB jar deployment profile(MDBServer.deploy) for the above MDB and deploy it to OC4J server(application name = MDBServer)

3. In same project, create the MDBClient. Inject the resources @Resource(name="jms/demoQueue") and @Resource(name="jms/TopicConnectionFactory"). Use connectionFactory and create connection, then session, message and send the message using producer.

4. In Jdeveloper create jndi.properties file with:

java.naming.factory.initial= oracle.j2ee.naming.ApplicationClientInitialContextFactory
java.naming.provider.url=ormi://localhost:23791/MDBServer
java.naming.security.principal=oc4jadmin
java.naming.security.credentials=welcome

5. Create client Jar deployment profile from Jdeveloper. This creates application-client.xml. Modify application-client.xml and add following lines for the resource reference entries(Make sure to mention the main class file name in descriptor creation)

<application-client xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/application-client_1_4.xsd" version="1.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee">
<display-name>MDB1-app-client</display-name>
<resource-env-ref>
<resource-env-ref-name>jms/demoTopic</resource-env-ref-name>
<resource-env-ref-type>javax.jms.Topic</resource-env-ref-type>
</resource-env-ref>
<resource-env-ref>
<resource-env-ref-name>jms/TopicConnectionFactory </resource-env-ref-name>
<resource-env-ref-type>javax.jms.TopicConnectionFactory </resource-env-ref-type>
</resource-env-ref>
</application-client>

6. Deploy the deployment profile MDBClient.deploy to MDBClient.jar.

7. From command prompt containing the jar file, set class path and run :

D:\installs\JdevStudio10131\jdev\mywork\MDB\MDB1\deploy>set CLASSPATH =.\;D:\installs\oc4j\j2ee\home\oc4jclient.jar;D:\installs\oc4j\j2ee\home\lib\javax77.jar;

D:\installs\JdevStudio10131\jdev\mywork\MDB\MDB1\deploy>java oracle.oc4j.appclient.AppClientContainer MDBClient.jar

Output from the application server log will contain:

06/12/24 20:26:44 onMessage() - Message[ID:Oc4jJMS.Message.krishnamoorthy.64e0c3
ab:10fb4f6b670:-8000.4]

onMessage method of the MDB just does a system.out.println(message)

Note: Without creating jar of client files and if I directly run using:

D:\installs\JdevStudio10131\jdev\mywork\MDB\MDB1\classes>java -Djava.naming.factory.initial=oracle.j2ee.naming.ApplicationClientInitialContextFactory -Djava.naming.provider.url=ormi://localhost:23791/MDBServer -Djava.naming.security.principal=oc4jadmin -Djava.naming.security.credentials=welcome myJMSClient.TestJMSClient

I get

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at myJMSClient.TestJMSClient.main(TestJMSClient.java:22)

So, should a JMS client be run always using AppClientContainer as :

java oracle.oc4j.appclient.AppClientContainer MDBClient.jar