deploy mbean in weblogic 8.1?

Hey Sachin,

I take it you want to deploy an MBean of your own making? In that case it is quite easy:

1) Put your MBeans into the same jar/war/ear file as another of your J2EE components.

2) Write a weblogic specific startup class/application listener that creates your MBean instances and registers them in the weblogic MBean server - don't create your own MBean server. You get a reference to the weblogic MBean server via JNDI. See below.

You can now access your custom MBeans via the MBeanServer interface after you get a reference to the weblogic MBean server from JNDI. See below.

How to get a reference to the weblogic MBean server:

Hastable t = new Hashtable();

t.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "t3://localhost:7001"); /or whereever your server that runs the MBean server can be contacted.

t.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory");

//might be necessary depending on the settings in your weblogic server:

t.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, "weblogic");//or whatever user you have

t.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, "weblogic"); //or whatever password that user has

Context ctx = new InitialContext(t);

MBeanHome home = (MBeanHome) ctx.lookup("<some mbean server jndi location>")

MBeanServer server = home.getMBeanServer();

ctx.close();

Where <some mbean server jndi location>

is depending on if you deploy your MBeans on the admin server or not:

Admin server MBean server: "weblogic.management.adminhome"

Managed Server MBean server: "weblogic.management.home.localhome"

From this point, just use the MBeanServer interface as if it was local. It makes and RMI call to the server whenever you invoke a method on it.

Getting a reference to the weblogic MBean server from a client or from the server is the same. There is no difference.

Hope this helps,

Eske

esorta at 2007-7-29 15:59:30 >

In weblogic 8, your class needs to implement the weblogic.common.T3StartupDef interface. Then you jar this class (and all associated files), and put it in the class path in your server start up script. In the weblogic admin console, you need to specify the startup class, and target it to server or cluster, or individual servers. Then when you start the server, it will call this class's startup method.

http://edocs.bea.com/wls/docs81/javadocs/weblogic/common/T3StartupDef.html

- Alper

aakturea at 2007-7-29 15:59:30 >