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12.  MBean Configuration and Dependency management 

How to deploy and configure your mbeans by David 

Jencks 

Almost everything important in JBoss is an mbean, such as ejbs, the naming service, 

resource adapters, etc. Most of these (except, as of now, ejbs) are configured through jboss 

specific xml deployment descriptors in * service.xml files.  These may be packed with the 

classes they need in a sar (service archive) or deployed separately.  We will cover the format 

of these configuration files, the structure of sar files, and the two types of dependency 

management: between mbeans, and between an mbean and its class.  We will also discuss 

the mbean lifecycle. 

Listing 10 12 1, * service.xml files look like this: