An Application That Uses the JMS API with a Session Bean

This section explains how to write, compile, package, deploy, and run an application that uses the JMS API in conjunction with a session bean. The application contains the following components:

• An application client that invokes a session bean

• A session bean that publishes several messages to a topic

• A message-driven bean that receives and processes the messages using a durable topic subscriber and a message selector

You will find the source files for this section in the directory tut-install/examples/jms/clientsessionmdb/. Path names in this section are relative to this directory.

Writing the Application Components for the clientsessionmdb Example

This application demonstrates how to send messages from an enterprise bean (in this case, a session bean) rather than from an application client, as in the example in Chapter 17, A Message-Driven Bean Example. Figure 31–3 illustrates the structure of this application.

Figure 31–3 An Enterprise Bean Application: Client to Session Bean to Message-Driven Bean

The Publisher enterprise bean in this example is the enterprise-application equivalent of a wire-service news feed that categorizes news events into six news categories. The message-driven bean could represent a newsroom, where the sports desk, for example, would set up a subscription for all news events pertaining to sports.

The application client in the example injects the Publisher enterprise bean’s remote home interface and then calls the bean’s business method. The enterprise bean creates 18 text messages. For each message, it sets a String property randomly to one of six values representing the news categories and then publishes the message to a topic. The message-driven bean uses a message selector for the property to limit which of the published messages it receives.

Coding the Application Client: MyAppClient.java

The application client, clientsessionmdb-app-client/src/java/MyAppClient.java, performs no JMS API operations and so is simpler than the client in Chapter 17, A Message-Driven Bean Example. The client uses dependency injection to obtain the Publisher enterprise bean’s business interface:

@EJB(name="PublisherRemote")
static private PublisherRemote publisher;

The client then calls the bean’s business method twice.

Coding the Publisher Session Bean

The Publisher bean is a stateless session bean that has one business method. The Publisher bean uses a remote interface rather than a local interface because it is accessed from the application client.

The remote interface, clientsessionmdb-ejb/src/java/sb/PublisherRemote.java, declares a single business method, publishNews.

The bean class, clientsessionmdb-ejb/src/java/sb/PublisherBean.java, implements the publishNews method and its helper method chooseType. The bean class also injects SessionContext, ConnectionFactory, and Topic resources and implements @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy callback methods. The bean class begins as follows:

@Stateless
@Remote({PublisherRemote.class})
public class PublisherBean implements PublisherRemote {

    @Resource
    private SessionContext sc;

    @Resource(lookup = "jms/ConnectionFactory")
    private ConnectionFactory connectionFactory;

    @Resource(lookup = "jms/Topic")
    private Topic topic;
    ...

The @PostConstruct callback method of the bean class, makeConnection, creates the Connection used by the bean. The business method publishNews creates a Session and a MessageProducer and publishes the messages.

The @PreDestroy callback method, endConnection, deallocates the resources that were allocated by the @PostConstruct callback method. In this case, the method closes the Connection.

Coding the Message-Driven Bean: MessageBean.java

The message-driven bean class, clientsessionmdb-ejb/src/java/mdb/MessageBean.java, is almost identical to the one in Chapter 17, A Message-Driven Bean Example. However, the @MessageDriven annotation is different, because instead of a queue the bean is using a topic with a durable subscription, and it is also using a message selector. Therefore, the annotation sets the activation config properties messageSelector, subscriptionDurability, clientId, and subscriptionName, as follows:

@MessageDriven(mappedName = "jms/Topic", activationConfig =  {
    @ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "messageSelector",
            propertyValue = "NewsType = 'Sports' OR NewsType = 'Opinion'")
    , @ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "subscriptionDurability",
            propertyValue = "Durable")
    , @ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "clientId",
            propertyValue = "MyID")
    , @ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "subscriptionName",
            propertyValue = "MySub")
    })

For a message-driven bean, the destination is specified with the mappedName element instead of the lookup element.

The JMS resource adapter uses these properties to create a connection factory for the message-driven bean that allows the bean to use a durable subscriber.

Creating Resources for the clientsessionmdb Example

This example uses the topic named jms/Topic and the connection factory jms/ConnectionFactory, which you created in To Create JMS Administered Objects for the Synchronous Receive Example. If you deleted the connection factory or topic, you can create them again using targets in the build.xml file for this example. Use the following commands to create the resources:

ant create-cf
ant create-topic

To Build, Package, Deploy, and Run the clientsessionmdb Example Using NetBeans IDE

1. To compile and package the project, follow these steps:

   1. In NetBeans IDE, select File->Open Project.

   2. In the Open Project dialog, navigate to:

      tut-install/examples/jms/

   3. Select the clientsessionmdb folder.

   4. Select the Open as Main Project check box and the Open Required Projects check box.

   5. Click Open Project.

   6. In the Projects tab, right-click the clientsessionmdb project and select Build.

      This task creates the following:

      • An application client JAR file that contains the client class file and the session bean’s remote interface, along with a manifest file that specifies the main class and places the EJB JAR file in its classpath

      • An EJB JAR file that contains both the session bean and the message-driven bean

      • An application EAR file that contains the two JAR files

2. Right-click the project and select Run.

   This command deploys the project, returns a JAR file named clientsessionmdbClient.jar, and then executes it.

   The output of the application client in the Output pane looks like this (preceded by application client container output):

   To view the bean output, check <install_dir>/domains/domain1/logs/server.log.

   The output from the enterprise beans appears in the server log (domain-dir/logs/server.log), wrapped in logging information. The Publisher session bean sends two sets of 18 messages numbered 0 through 17. Because of the message selector, the message-driven bean receives only the messages whose NewsType property is Sports or Opinion.

To Build, Package, Deploy, and Run the clientsessionmdb Example Using Ant

1. Go to the following directory:

   tut-install/examples/jms/clientsessionmdb/
   

2. To compile the source files and package the application, use the following command:

   ant

   The ant command creates the following:

   • An application client JAR file that contains the client class file and the session bean’s remote interface, along with a manifest file that specifies the main class and places the EJB JAR file in its classpath

   • An EJB JAR file that contains both the session bean and the message-driven bean

   • An application EAR file that contains the two JAR files

   The clientsessionmdb.ear file is created in the dist directory.

3. To deploy the application and run the client, use the following command:

   ant run

   Ignore the message that states that the application is deployed at a URL.

   The client displays these lines (preceded by application client container output):

   To view the bean output,
    check <install_dir>/domains/domain1/logs/server.log.

   The output from the enterprise beans appears in the server log file, wrapped in logging information. The Publisher session bean sends two sets of 18 messages numbered 0 through 17. Because of the message selector, the message-driven bean receives only the messages whose NewsType property is Sports or Opinion.