Configuring a resource (Re: Bean lookup failure if interface annotation used on bean class)

[David Blevins <da...@visi.com>]

On Jan 3, 2007, at 2:53 AM, Raj Saini wrote:

> Hi David,
>
>> David Blevins wrote:
>>>
>>> On Dec 27, 2006, at 8:09 PM, Raj Saini wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> The related functionality for those isn't implemented (should be  
>>> soon).  In the mean-time would you be interested in doing one of  
>>> these?
>>>
>>>     [OPENEJB-355] Example: @Resource for Field Injection
>>>     [OPENEJB-356] Example: @Resource for Setter Injection
> How do I configure a resource (e.g. a data source or a mail) into  
> OpenEJB3? In other Java EE servers, resources are configured  
> through server configuration files. I have no idea how to do it in  
> OpenEJB.

For these examples I'd go with only env-entry items.  The example for  
using @Resource for JDBC lookup is a different example (OPENEJB-358).

But to answer the question, you can have an openejb.conf file in your  
test case as well as an openejb-jar.xml file to link to the data  
source configured in your openejb.conf.  Similarly, we can also  
create an openejb.conf and openejb-jar.xml for you dynamically and  
give you the default data source if you need one.  At the moment the  
default is HSqlDB.

I'd like to provide a way to configure the datasource through  
properties so in the most ideal scenario you'd only need one extra  
property in your InitialContext creation code to get a datasource  
configured and available to your bean.

There was some discussion on this a long while back:

http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@openejb.org/msg00171.html

Good read.

-David