Weblogic Foreign Server issue

Question

Hi,
We were trying to integrate Tibco EMS with WLS 10.3 (using Foreign JMS Server). We are using Spring as our app container (the one which basically creates/manages connections, sessions etc)
I am able to listen to the topics both durably and non-durable mode by hardcoding the username/passwords in the spring config directly.
We didnt want this hardcoding of credentials, so moved to using the Foreign JMS Provider implementation from Weblogic. To access the ConnectionFactories I now use resource-ref in the web.xml and have wired spring to use the JNDI lookup using these resource-refs to lookup the topic and connection factories. This works fine for non-durable subscription.
Issue: For durable subscriptions, using Foreign JMS Providers (like mentioned above) I get this error
java.lang.ClassCastException: com.tibco.tibjms.TibjmsXASession cannot be cast to javax.jms.TopicSession
     at weblogic.deployment.jms.PooledSession.createDurableSubscriber(PooledSession.java:348)
     at org.springframework.jms.listener.AbstractPollingMessageListenerContainer.createConsumer(AbstractPollingMessageListenerContainer.java:469)
     at org.springframework.jms.listener.AbstractPollingMessageListenerContainer.createListenerConsumer(AbstractPollingMessageListenerContainer.java:221)
     at org.springframework.jms.listener.AbstractPollingMessageListenerContainer.doReceiveAndExecute(AbstractPollingMessageListenerContainer.java:305)
     at org.springframework.jms.listener.AbstractPollingMessageListenerContainer.receiveAndExecute(AbstractPollingMessageListenerContainer.java:261)
     at org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer$AsyncMessageListenerInvoker.invokeListener(DefaultMessageListenerContainer.java:1002)
     at org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer$AsyncMessageListenerInvoker.executeOngoingLoop(DefaultMessageListenerContainer.java:994)
     at org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer$AsyncMessageListenerInvoker.run(DefaultMessageListenerContainer.java:896)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
The issue isnt with non-XA or XA connectionFactories either. When I tried using a non-XA conn factory I get a similar error but the cast exception is between TopicSessionImpl and TopicSession.
My spring config is -
<jms:listener-container container-type="default"
                                   connection-factory="jmsTopicConnectionFactory"
                                   cache="none"
                                   acknowledge="auto"
                                   destination-resolver="gadgetDestinationResolver" destination-type="durableTopic" client-id="testClientId" >
<jms:listener destination="jms/GL.GADGET.IN" ref="publishThumbnailListener" subscription="localhost7001durable" />
</jms:listener-container>
Not sure if I need to set anything other than client-id, durableSubscriptionName while subscribing.
Any idea what might be wrong or if theres anything else I need setting up?
Thanks
Pdk

Answer 1

The stack trace seems to indicate that the TIBCO client library that you are using supports JMS 1.1 only, although JMS 1.1 Spec requires JMS providers to support both 1.0.2 and 1.1 APIs. You can check and see if there is a client library from TIBCO that supports JMS 1.0.2 as well.
Meanwhile, Weblogic JMS pooling code is supposed to support both JMS 1.0.2 and 1.1. It looks like it doe not support 1.1 for creating a durable subscriber on a javax.jms.Sessiom. You can contact Oracle support for a fix.