WebLogic 10 and EJB 3.0 for Message Driven Bean

Question

Hi,
I am trying to deploy Message Driven Bean using EJB3.0 on weblogic 10. I am using annotations and don't want to use deployment descriptors.
The Bean class:
CalculatorBean.java
import javax.ejb.*;
import javax.jms.*;
import java.sql.Timestamp;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
@MessageDriven(activationConfig =
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName="destinationType",
propertyValue="javax.jms.Queue"),
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName="destination",
propertyValue="queue/mdb")
public class CalculatorBean implements MessageListener {
public void onMessage (Message msg) {
TextMessage tmsg=null;
try {
if (msg instanceof TextMessage) {
tmsg = (TextMessage) msg;
System.out.println
("MESSAGE BEAN1: Message received: "
+ tmsg.getText());
} else {
System.out.println
("Message of wrong type1: "
+ msg.getClass().getName());
catch (JMSException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
catch (Throwable te) {
te.printStackTrace();
My client:
import javax.naming.*;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import java.text.*;
import javax.jms.*;
public class MsgClient {
public static void main(String args[])
QueueConnection cnn=null;
QueueSender sender=null;
QueueSession sess=null;
Queue queue=null;
try {
java.util.Properties p = new java.util.Properties();
p.put("java.naming.factory.initial","weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory");
p.put("java.naming.provider.url","t3://10.6.74.79:7001");
Context ctx=new InitialContext(p);
//InitialContext ctx=new InitialContext(p);
queue = (Queue)ctx.lookup("queue/mdb");
QueueConnectionFactory factory = (QueueConnectionFactory)ctx.lookup("ConnectionFactory");
cnn = factory.createQueueConnection();
sess= cnn.createQueueSession(false, QueueSession.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);
sender = sess.createSender(queue);
TextMessage message = sess.createTextMessage();
message.setText("This is message by Gurumurthy" );
System.out.println("Sending message: " +message.getText());
sender.send(message);
sess.close();
catch (Exception e)
e.printStackTrace();
I am compiling and creating jar file for this class. Then I am creating a .ear file for this.
The meta-inf/application.xml contains the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<application xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" version="1.4"
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_1_4.xsd">
<display-name>MDBWorking1</display-name>
<description>Application description</description>
<module>
<ejb>MDBWorking1.jar</ejb>
</module>
</application>
I don't want to use deployment descriptor (ejb-jar.xml or weblogic-ejb-jar-xml), because I want to utilize the annotation feature of EJB3.0
So, after creating the .ear file for this, and try to deploy on weblogic 10, I get the following error:
An error occurred during activation of changes, please see the log for details.
Exception preparing module: EJBModule(MDBWorking1.jar) Unable to deploy EJB: CalculatorBean from MDBWorking1.jar: [EJB:011113]Error: The Message Driven Bean 'CalculatorBean(Application: MDBWorking1, EJBComponent: MDBWorking1.jar)', does not have a message destination configured. The message destination must be set using a message-destination-link, destination-resource-link, destination-jndi-name or a resource-adapter-jndi-name.
Substituted for missing class [EJB - 11113]Error: The Message Driven Bean 'CalculatorBean(Application: MDBWorking1, EJBComponent: MDBWorking1.jar)', does not have a message destination configured. The message destination must be set using a message-destination-link, destination-resource-link, destination-jndi-name or a resource-adapter-jndi-name.
How to solve this?
Note:
I don't want to use Deployment Descriptor and all I want to use is EJB3.0's annotation feature.
Thanks,
Guru

Answer 1

Dear gurubbc,
I don't know if it still matters to you but you can use the javax.ejb.MessageDriven annotation to point your bean on your queue. I had the same issue like you but i could not solve it properly by switchihg to weblogic.ejb.MessageDriven.
Use the following annotation and it should work out:
@MessageDriven
(mappedName = "queue/mdb",
name = "CalculatorBean",
activationConfig = {
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "destinationType", propertyValue = "javax.jms.Queue")
Here you can see that the mappedName is the JNDI name of the queue you are trying to connect to. The name is the name for your Bean, and the only property passed is the destination type.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Istvan