MQSeries.net :: View topic - Resource environment provider and JMS resources

nuernbergms · Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 5:29 am Post subject:

Hello, I have the following question:

So far we have a more or less normal integration of IBM Websphere and IBM MQ in order that we can access MQ resources from our web-app.
The resource references (for Connection Factory and Queues) are configured in web.xml by resource-ref entries.

What we try to achieve is whether we can get rid off these resource references in the web.xml, or at least can have a web.xml with generic entries (the web-app is a standard product which can be used in projects with different resource requirements).

If this can be achieved using JEE standard mechanism, in order that we can switch containers, this would be even better.

Recently I came across Websphere resource environment providers here http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0611_totapally/0611_totapally.html. From the first glance it seemed to be about adminstered objects which can can group resources. In your web.xml you would reference such an object using a resource-env-ref entry in a generic way. In the container you would then configure the actual resources. However, the example from the link above covers only storing key/value string pairs here. Conceptual it seemed to me it should be possible to also hold more complex things like JMS resources here. At least the example doesn't cover this, and in the Websphere admin console I also didn't find GUI elements enabling this.
So am I wrong? is it not possible?

Best regards

Michael