Jakarta Enterprise Beans 4.0 Message-Driven Beans

This feature enables the use of Message-Driven Jakarta Enterprise Beans written to the Jakarta Enterprise Beans 4.0 specification. MDBs allow asynchronous processing of messages within a Jakarta EE component.

Enable this feature

To enable the Jakarta Enterprise Beans 4.0 Message-Driven Beans feature, add the following element declaration into server.xml, inside the featureManager element:

<feature>mdb-4.0</feature>

Feature configuration elements

• application
• applicationManager
• applicationMonitor
• authData
• classloader
• classloading
• ejbApplication
• ejbContainer
• enterpriseApplication
• javaPermission
• library
• transaction
• webApplication

Standard API packages provided by this feature

• jakarta.annotation
• jakarta.annotation.security
• jakarta.annotation.sql
• jakarta.ejb
• jakarta.ejb.embeddable
• jakarta.ejb.spi
• jakarta.interceptor
• javax.rmi
• javax.rmi.CORBA
• org.omg.BiDirPolicy
• org.omg.CONV_FRAME
• org.omg.CORBA
• org.omg.CORBA.ContainedPackage
• org.omg.CORBA.ContainerPackage
• org.omg.CORBA.InterfaceDefPackage
• org.omg.CORBA.ORBPackage
• org.omg.CORBA.PollableSetPackage
• org.omg.CORBA.TypeCodePackage
• org.omg.CORBA.ValueDefPackage
• org.omg.CORBA.portable
• org.omg.CORBA_2_3
• org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable
• org.omg.CORBA_2_4
• org.omg.CORBA_2_4.portable
• org.omg.CSI
• org.omg.CSIIOP
• org.omg.CosNaming
• org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextExtPackage
• org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage
• org.omg.CosTSInteroperation
• org.omg.CosTransactions
• org.omg.Dynamic
• org.omg.DynamicAny
• org.omg.DynamicAny.DynAnyFactoryPackage
• org.omg.DynamicAny.DynAnyPackage
• org.omg.GIOP
• org.omg.GSSUP
• org.omg.IIOP
• org.omg.IOP
• org.omg.IOP.CodecFactoryPackage
• org.omg.IOP.CodecPackage
• org.omg.MessageRouting
• org.omg.Messaging
• org.omg.PortableInterceptor
• org.omg.PortableInterceptor.ORBInitInfoPackage
• org.omg.PortableServer
• org.omg.PortableServer.CurrentPackage
• org.omg.PortableServer.POAManagerFactoryPackage
• org.omg.PortableServer.POAManagerPackage
• org.omg.PortableServer.POAPackage
• org.omg.PortableServer.ServantLocatorPackage
• org.omg.PortableServer.portable
• org.omg.SSLIOP
• org.omg.Security
• org.omg.SecurityLevel1
• org.omg.SecurityLevel2
• org.omg.SendingContext
• org.omg.SendingContext.CodeBasePackage
• org.omg.TimeBase
• org.omg.stub.java.rmi

Features that this feature enables

• connectors-2.0
• jndi-1.0

Supported Java versions

• JavaSE-1.8
• JavaSE-11.0
• JavaSE-17.0
• JavaSE-21.0
• JavaSE-24.0

Platform Versions

• jakartaee-9.1
• jakartaee-10.0

Features that enable this feature

• enterpriseBeans-4.0

Develop a feature that depends on this feature

If we are developing a feature that depends on this feature, include the following item in the Subsystem-Content header in your feature manifest file.

io.openliberty.mdb-4.0; type="osgi.subsystem.feature"

SPI packages provided by this feature

• com.ibm.ws.adaptable.module.structure
• com.ibm.ws.anno.classsource.specification
• com.ibm.wsspi.adaptable.module
• com.ibm.wsspi.adaptable.module.adapters
• com.ibm.wsspi.anno.classsource
• com.ibm.wsspi.anno.info
• com.ibm.wsspi.anno.service
• com.ibm.wsspi.anno.targets
• com.ibm.wsspi.anno.util
• com.ibm.wsspi.artifact
• com.ibm.wsspi.artifact.equinox.module
• com.ibm.wsspi.artifact.factory
• com.ibm.wsspi.artifact.factory.contributor
• com.ibm.wsspi.artifact.overlay