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How to set the principal of a MessageDriven bean using annotations?

I'm running on glassfish v4 and I use a messagedriven bean. Currently I'm defining the principal under which the bean runs in the glassfish-ejb-jar.xml like:

<enterprise-beans>
  <ejb>
    <ejb-name>MessageConsumerBean</ejb-name>
    <principal>
      <name>MDBPrincipal</name>
    </principal>

Is it possible to do the same using just annotations e.g. @MessageDriven?

Solution

  • According to https://java.net/downloads/ejb-spec/mdb.no-method.interface.pdf section 5.4.14 page 133 a Principal may be propagated in the security context but details are not governed by the EJB spec. In other words it's a platform dependent feature.

    One can use @RunAs If MDB need to be granted a specific role to run some protected @RolesAllowed method.

    If you need Principal for some application logic I'm afraid there's only platform dependent solution like RunAsPrincipal (JBoss) or glassfish-ejb-jar.xml in your case.