Mdb ejb won't load using steady-pool-size

Question

I have a message driven bean I'm deploying in an .ear file. The sun-ejb-jar.xml file has the following:
<sun-ejb-jar>
<enterprise-beans>
<unique-id>1</unique-id>
<ejb>
<ejb-name>LoggerEJB</ejb-name>
<jndi-name>com.ecc.utils.LoggerTopic</jndi-name>
<mdb-connection-factory>
<jndi-name>com.ecc.utils.JMSTopicConnectionFactory</jndi-name>
</mdb-connection-factory>
<bean-pool>
<steady-pool-size>2</steady-pool-size>
<resize-quantity>1</resize-quantity>
<max-pool-size>5</max-pool-size>
<pool-idle-timeout-in-seconds>600</pool-idle-timeout-in-seconds>
</bean-pool>
</ejb>
</enterprise-beans>
</sun-ejb-jar>
Yet I see no evidence it is pre-loading my mdb ejbs. I have output statements and logging that would indicated an instance has actually loaded, and I am seeing none of it. So, what magic trick does it take to get the mdb to acutally use it's <steady-pool-size> setting in the descriptor file?
Also, how can you tell what ejbs and how many instances are loaded? I see nothing in the Console for this. Also, how can you monitor a topic/queue to see if anything is getting sent?
Tony F

Answer 1

Does the ext directory have the php_oci8.dll? In the original steps the PHP dir is renamed. In the given php.in the extension_dir looks like it has been updated correctly. Since PHP distributes php_oci8.dll by default I reckon there would be a very good chance that the problem was somewhere else. Since this is an old thread I don't think we'll get much value from speculation.
-- cj