Using WebLogic JMS Wrappers with Spring

Question

Hi,
I was just wondering if anyone used WebLogic JMS wrappers with Spring?
I am using WebLogic configured to have Sonic as my Foreign JNDI Provider. Weblogic provide me with specific entries on the admin console to set information such as the JNDI name of the Sonic Connection Factory. If I specify this JNDI name in the Spring config, and call getConnection() then I will get back a new connection each time.
I don't want this, I want to cache the connection (as connections are expensive in Sonic). This is where the WebLogic JMS wrappers come in, they can handle the pooling for me but the only way I can see to use them is via a resource-ref. It is possible for Spring to get a handle onto these wrappers or should I use Spring's own pooling mechanism instead?
P.S. I've also asked this question on the Spring forum
Thanks for any help
Mandy

Answer 1

Maybe you have already tried the following:
<beans xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee" ... >
<jee:jndi-lookup id="connectionFactory" jndi-name="jms.ConnectionFactory">
<jee:environment>
java.naming.factory.initial=weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory
java.naming.provider.url=t3://localhost:7001
</jee:environment>
</jee:jndi-lookup>
</beans>
an alternative is to use the JNDI template
<beans ... >
<bean id="jndiTemplate" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiTemplate">
<property name="environment">
<props>
<prop key="java.naming.factory.initial">weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory</prop>
<prop key="java.naming.provider.url">t3://localhost:7001</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="connectionFactory" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean">
<property name="jndiTemplate" ref="jndiTemplate" />
<property name="jndiName"><value>jms.ConnectionFactory</value></property>
</bean>
</beans>