Thanks Adrian, I will leave the notification content as is and make
DeploymentInfo accessible from MainDeployer via a managed-operation.

(Less work, too;-)

Thanks
david 

On 2002.04.13 20:26:31 -0400 Adrian Brock wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just a heads up.
> 
> I realise this notification was originally only used
> by the farm service, and is only used locally.
> But ideally all JMX notifications should contain
> Serializable data, for people who want to monitor
> remotely.
> Currently, the DeploymentInfo isn't Serializable.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrian
> 
> > I had submitted some JMX deployment notification code
> > 
> > (DeploymentNotification class and mods to the
> > J2eeDeployer class) which was 
> > incorporated into JBoss 2.4x.  I've just started
> > migrating to JBoss 3.0 and 
> > noticed that the DeploymentInfo object is not passed
> > in the Notification 
> > anymore, only the url data member is passed to the
> > setUserData() method in 
> > MainDeployer.java.  I specifically need the localUrl,
> > but the other info 
> > was useful as well.  This was so that I could open
> > XML files that might 
> > exist within the deployed archive.  The XML files
> > contain SQL commands (to 
> > create additional indexes or load initial data into
> > tables), create dynamic 
> > MBeans instances, and provide configuration data for
> > currently running MBeans.
> > 
> > As far as I can tell, changing the parameter of
> > setUserData() to the di 
> > (DeploymentInfo) from just the URL (di.url) would
> > only effect one line of 
> > code in the distribution.  That would be line 459 in
> > FarmMemberService.java 
> > from:
> > 
> > URL lURL = (URL)
> > L = (URL) pNotification.getUserData();
> > 
> > to:
> > 
> > URL lURL =
> > RL lURL =
> > ((DeploymentInfo)pNotification.getUserData()).url;
> > 
> > The other request is to move the sendNotification()
> > in 
> > MainDeployer.deploy() [line 514] down 4 lines after
> > the start() method 
> > call.  This is because the archive hasn't been
> > expanded yet.  I am guessing 
> > that when the deployer was re-architected, the number
> > of notifications was 
> > cut from 4 to 2.  The deployment architecture has
> > undergone major revision, 
> > so it isn't really possible to trap after the archive
> > is expanded by 
> > AbstractWebContainer.buildWebContext(), but before it
> > is start()ed.  This 
> > is because the MainDeployer.deploy() calls
> > SubDeployer.start() which calls 
> > AbstractWebContainer.start() which calls
> > buildWebContext().  So it all 
> > happens in one fell swoop.  I believe that the
> > buildWebContext() 
> > functionality was originally in an init() method
> > which allowed us to place 
> > the notification in between the init() and the
> > start().
> > 
> > From a symmetric point of view the Undeployment
> >  notification, occurring 
> > within MainDeployer.undeploy(), should probably be
> > moved before the stop(), 
> > but if dependent MBean services are removed before
> > the archive is stopped, 
> > this could cause problems in redeployment, so perhaps
> > it could be moved 
> > between the stop() and the destroy() [line 342].  If
> > the XML files are 
> > removed prior to shutdown, it requires the
> > Notification handler to cache 
> > any shutdown operations and associate them with
> > archive in a collection.  I 
> > am open to suggestions.
> > 
> > Thank you again.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Frederick N. Brier
> > Sr. Software Engineer
> > Multideck Corporation
> > 
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