I wanted to start this thread to bring together a number of JIRAs and to clarify with how we're planning to proceed with managing Connection Factory's in Embedded Jopr and JON.

First here are the jiras which seem to touch on this topic:

https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JOPR-108 Add support for local-tx connection factories
https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-6647 "XAConnectionFactoryTemplate" and possibly other templates are missing from ManagementView

The path of least resistance seems to be for there to be two connection factory related management components:
@ManagementComponent(type="ConnectionFactory",subtype="Tx") *Note the change from subtype="XA" today*
@ManagementComponent(type="ConnectionFactory",subtype="NoTx")

Where the "Tx" component would represent both local-tx and XA connection factories. The Tx component can have boolean config property for whether this is an XA connection factory. This approach also matches how the existing connection factory descriptors are laid out.

It also means we don't need any new templates since the ones we have should be sufficient:

ManagementView.getTemplateNames() returns the following Strings:
[TxConnectionFactoryTemplate, NoTxConnectionFactoryTemplate, ...]


Unless we hear otherwise we'll push ahead with this approach on our side and I'll raise a jira for changing the subtype from XA to Tx in...

https://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/branches/Branch_5_x/connector/src/main/org/jboss/resource/metadata/mcf/TxConnectionFactoryDeploymentMetaData.java

Thanks