EJB 3 Interceptor @AroundInvoke does not work on session bean superclass

Question

JDeveloper 10.1.3.0.4 Build 3673 running Embedded OC4J (jdk1.5.0_02).
I have a stateless session bean that subclasses another session bean. The superclass has an @AroundInvoke defined on it. However, just defining the @AroundInvoke on the superclass doesn't trigger the interceptor to run. But if I add the superclass as an @Interceptor on the subclass, it works. But that shouldn't be required according to the EJB 3.0 core spec (pg. 269):
After the interceptor methods defined on interceptor classes have been invoked, then:
If a bean class has superclasses, any AroundInvoke methods defined on those
superclasses are invoked, most general superclass first.
Anyway, the interceptor implementation doesn't appear to properly implement the spec on this point, AFAICT.

Answer 1

Check your ejb-jar.xml and see if it has the version of "2.1" there...
If the application was depending upon EJB 3.0 annotations but it had a ejb-jar.xml that had version set to "2.1" and there was no oracle specific descriptor (orion-ejb-jar.xml) to designate it use the resource adapter; It would expect JMS destination and connection factory that is required for a JMS-MDB set in the ejb-jar.xml. So try to change the ejb-jar.xml to update the version to "3.0", OC4J would have parsed the annotation and combined the metadata with ejb-jar.xml and it would work.
-Frances