Hi CXF guys,
I would like to introduce a new CXF transport that we've developed and
that could be contributed back to the CXF community. It is called
"Reliable JMS transport"
When this transport has been designed, the goal was to have a reliable
transport that we could called "Enterprise Transport" as we wanted to
use transactions and JMS by using containers like Java EE EJB or Spring
MDP (we support both). We don't want to loose any requests or answers
and we want to avoid waiting threads. This transport has not been
designed from scratch as it is using the JMS layer and share some
classes with the current CXF JMS transport but there are some
differences between them. But we couldn't change the current transport
as the design is not the same.
First, let me give you details about this transport and why it's
different from the current JMS CXF transport.
The current CXF JMS transport is not reliable. For example, if you
restart a client or a server you may loose some requests/answers. This
is because the mechanism that is used is keeping data in memory. So
after a JVM crash, all the data are lost.
Also, for this new transport, we wanted to guarantee the delivery so it
is using transactions. (A transaction manager is then required).
As said before, we wanted to avoid the use of threads waiting for an
answer. If there are 100 requests, we don't want 100 threads waiting
their answer. This is because we can use either EJB MDB or Spring MDP to
handle the answer. In this way, resources are allocated only if an
answer is handled and not during all the waiting time. So the number of
threads is dramatically reduced. Also by relying on EJB MDB or Spring
MDP we're based on existing patterns.
Here is a link to the documentation of this transport and pictures that
are illustrating this solution :
http://wiki.jonas.ow2.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReliableJMS_Transport_CXF
This illustrates how the
And the errors handling that is working with all kind of JVM crash :
http://wiki.jonas.ow2.org/xwiki/bin/download/Main/ReliableJMS_Transport_CXF/cxf-reliablejms-execution-flow-simple-failure-english.png
There are integration tests included in this transport that are launched
through our continous integration tool on http://bamboo.ow2.org
For now, they're using JOnAS as Java EE server as we need a JTA manager
and we test both EJB MDB and Spring MDP providers.
To sum up, is there an interest in CXF to integrate this transport ?
What kind of changes need to be done, etc.
Also I hope to get some feedback about this protocol.
Regards,
Florent
