TransactionManager resource - no provider error

[Totsline, Greg]

Hi -

We are injecting a javax.transaction.TransactionManager into an EJB.  It works fine under JBoss, but under OpenEJB 3.1.2  we get an OpenEJBException:

No provider available for resource-ref 'null' of type 'javax.transaction.TransactionManager' for 'MyBean'.  This is the same problem reported in

http://old.nabble.com/TransactionManager-injection-td19492820.html

Was there a resolution to this problem or a suggested work around?

Many Thanks.

-greg

[Jean-Louis MONTEIRO]

Hi,

it should definitely work.
Did you provide a mappedName ?

Jean-Louis

Totsline, Greg wrote:

Hi -

We are injecting a javax.transaction.TransactionManager into an EJB.  It works fine under JBoss, but under OpenEJB 3.1.2  we get an OpenEJBException:

No provider available for resource-ref 'null' of type 'javax.transaction.TransactionManager' for 'MyBean'.  This is the same problem reported in

http://old.nabble.com/TransactionManager-injection-td19492820.html

Was there a resolution to this problem or a suggested work around?

Many Thanks.

-greg

[David Blevins]

Actually this is one of those things that a bean is not supposed to be  
able to do and is the purpose of the UserTransaction object.  If you  
can use that instead I definitely would as it will be portable to all  
impls that pass the Java EE TCK.

That said, you could add support for injection of that type via a  
PropertiesEditor like this one:

   import javax.naming.InitialContext;
   import javax.naming.NamingException;
   import javax.transaction.TransactionManager;
   import java.beans.PropertyEditorManager;

   public class TransactionManagerEditor extends  
java.beans.PropertyEditorSupport {

       static {
           
PropertyEditorManager.registerEditor(TransactionManager.class,  
TransactionManagerEditor.class);
       }

       public void setAsText(String text) throws  
IllegalArgumentException {
           try {
               InitialContext context = new InitialContext();
               Object o = context.lookup("openejb:TransactionManager");
               setValue(TransactionManager.class.cast(o));
           } catch (NamingException e) {
               throw new IllegalStateException(e);
           }
       }
   }

   (or here: http://gist.github.com/231273 )

You just need to make sure the TransactionManagerEditor loads fairly  
early or move the register code close to the class where the  
TransactionManager is needed.

This *should* do the trick.  You might need to add a corresponding  
<env-entry>, not sure if we require that.  If we do you can use the  
env-entries.properties file which will not conflict with JBoss at  
all.  (see http://openejb.apache.org/3.0/custom-injection.html)

We could probably add built in support for this, but for now the above  
should work.

I've added a jira for "extended" types usable with @Resource (i.e. non-
standard), just to make sure we don't loose the feedback:

   https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENEJB-1104

Feel free to add some more if you have any you need.  Here's the  
standard list:

   https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENEJB-370

Not sure if that is comprehensive, but seems to be just missing  
UserTransaction.

-David


On Nov 10, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Jean-Louis MONTEIRO wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> it should definitely work.
> Did you provide a mappedName ?
>
> Jean-Louis
>
>
> Totsline, Greg wrote:
>>
>> Hi -
>>
>> We are injecting a javax.transaction.TransactionManager into an  
>> EJB.  It
>> works fine under JBoss, but under OpenEJB 3.1.2  we get an
>> OpenEJBException:
>>
>> No provider available for resource-ref 'null' of type
>> 'javax.transaction.TransactionManager' for 'MyBean'.  This is the  
>> same
>> problem reported in
>>
>> http://old.nabble.com/TransactionManager-injection-td19492820.html
>>
>> Was there a resolution to this problem or a suggested work around?
>>
>> Many Thanks.
>>
>> -greg
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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