A ResourceAdapter is a preconfigured bundle (a .rar file) that you can deploy to your application server in order to configure access to Managed resources.
In this case the Pulsar Resource Adapter allows you to easily connect to Pulsar from a Web Application or from an Enterprise Java Bean.
This resource adapter defines:
- The main ResourceAdapter implementation (com.datastax.oss.pulsar.jms.rar.PulsarResourceAdapter)
- The implementation for Outbound Connections (com.datastax.oss.pulsar.jms.rar.PulsarManagedConnectionFactory)
- The implementation for Inbound Messages (com.datastax.oss.pulsar.jms.rar.PulsarActivationSpec)
- The mapping for Queues and for Topics administered objects
Usually you do not have to use directly the names of the Java Classes, because the AppServer is able to discover them automatically using the ra.xml file.
In JMS you define Queues and Topics, in case of this ResourceAdapter you must use:
- com.datastax.oss.pulsar.jms.PulsarQueue for Queues
- com.datastax.oss.pulsar.jms.PulsarTopic for Topics
These to types define the "Name" configuration entry, that represents the fully qualified name of the Pulsar topic, like persistent://public/default/topic.
If you omit the initial part then the JMS Client applies automatically the jms.systemNamespace prefix.
The ResourceAdapter defines a "Configuration" property that contains the default configuration to be applied to every MesasgeListener and ConnectionFactory. It is encoded in JSON, please refer to the main readme for reference.
The ConfigurationFactory defines only this property:
- Configuration: this is the configuration for the underlying PulsarConnectionFactory, in JSON encoding
If you do not set a configuration, or set an empty value, then the general configuration of the ResourceAdapter is applied
When you define a MessageListener you define a PulsarActivationSpec, that holds these properties:
- Configuration: this is the configuration for the underlying PulsarConnectionFactory, in JSON encoding
- Destination: the Name of the destination, or lookup://JDNI-NAME-OF-THE-RESOURCE
- DestinationType: the type of destination, it defaults to javax.jms.Queue, use javax.jms.Topic in order to use the Pulsar Topic as a topic
If you want to use as destination a resource bound in the JNDI Context, you can use destination=lookup://JDNI-NAME-OF-THE-RESOURCE syntax.
For instance in Apache TomEE you will write lookup://openejb:Resource/MyQueue to refer to a Queue defined a MyQueue resource:
MyQueue=new://Resource?type=javax.jms.Queue
MyQueue.destination=my-queue.
For Topic connections:
- SubscriptionType: allowed values: Durable or NonDurable
- SubscriptionMode: allowed values: Exclusive or Shared
- SubscriptionName: the name of the subscription
If you do not set a value for Configuration, or in case you set an empty value, then the general configuration of the ResourceAdapter is applied
The ResourceAdapter is responsible for managing a pool of PulsarConnectionFactory, that in turn contains a Pulsar Java Client. The ResourceAdapter will try to share the Pulsar Client as much as possible, by keeping only one client per each different Configuration.
This adapter does not implement any integration with the Security mechanisms of the Appserver (for instance javax.security.auth.Subject).
The ResourceAdapter simply creates PulsarConnectionFactories depending on the Configuration, and this configuration
deal with the Authentication and Encryption facilities of the Pulsar Client.
This adapter does not implement support for Container Managed Transactions in Message Listeners.
In case of RuntimeException thrown by the MessageListener the message is simply negatively acknowledged in order
to tell Pulsar Broker to resend the message again later.
You can find here and example about how to configure Apache TomEE® with the ResourceAdapter. Please refer to the documentation of your container for instructions about how to deploy a ResourceAdapter bundle.