With which maven dependencies can i create a standalone JMS client for Glassfish?

Question

i want to create a very simple JMS standalone client to a JMS Topic hosted on my Glassfish server.

My project is built using maven.

I know there seems to be some kind of mess concerning JMS dependencies to use, so, which dependencies shouls I use in my pom to

Connect to my JNDI context
Be able to read my JMS topic ?

My Java test method is

/** Thanks to WELD CDI, this method is not static */
public void main(@Observes ContainerInitialized event) throws Throwable {
    Context context = new InitialContext();
    ConnectionFactory factory = (ConnectionFactory) context.lookup(JMSNotifierConstants.CONNECTION_FACTORY_NAME);
    Connection connection = factory.createConnection();
    Topic topic = (Topic) context.lookup(JMSNotifierConstants.NOTIFICATION_TOPIC);
    Session session = connection.createSession(false,
            Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);
    MessageConsumer consumer = session.createConsumer(topic);
    connection.start();
    while (true) {
        Message received = consumer.receive();
        System.out.println(received);
    }
}

And my pom contains, for now, the following dependencies

    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.enterprise</groupId>
        <artifactId>cdi-api</artifactId>
        <version>1.0-SP1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jboss.weld</groupId>
        <artifactId>weld-se</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.1-Final</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jboss.weld</groupId>
        <artifactId>weld-logger</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.0-CR2</version>
        <type>jar</type>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
        <version>1.6.1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>slf4j-jdk14</artifactId>
        <version>1.6.1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.glassfish</groupId>
        <artifactId>javax.jms</artifactId>
        <version>3.0</version>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.glassfish.extras</groupId>
        <artifactId>appserv-rt</artifactId>
        <version>3.1</version>
    </dependency>

Riduidel Riduidel · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-21T14:56:21

OK, this one was rather tricky.

After some searches and tries, I removed weld dependencies (in order to go back to a more classical main).

Then, I replaced my (old-style) appserv-rt.jar dependency with

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.glassfish.appclient</groupId>
        <artifactId>gf-client</artifactId>
        <version>3.1</version>
        <type>pom</type>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>

This is not a little change, as gf-client pulls all jars for Glassfish, which obviously makes a lot of jars (hopefully there is a method to optimize jar number, although we all know about premature optimization).

So, once it's done, it's perfectly possible to use EJB remote interface, but not JMS (due to incomprehensible reasons). In order to make JMS work with gf-client, one then have to go create maven dependencies for imqjmsra.jar and imqbroker.jar, both located in %GLASSFISH3_INSTALL_DIR%/glassfish/lib/install/applications/jmsra. Furthermore, as imqjmsra.jar internally uses imqbroker.jar, I recommend you to create the following poms :

<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>org.glassfish.external.jms</groupId>
  <artifactId>imqjmsra</artifactId>
  <version>3.1.0</version>
  <description>POM was created by Sonatype Nexus</description>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
          <groupId>org.glassfish.external.jms</groupId>
          <artifactId>imqbroker</artifactId>
          <version>3.1.0</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>

associated to imqjmsra.jar and

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>org.glassfish.external.jms</groupId>
  <artifactId>imqbroker</artifactId>
  <version>3.1.0</version>
  <description>POM was created by Sonatype Nexus</description>
</project>

associated to imqbroker.jar.

Obviously, as I use Nexus repository management, it was easier for me to create these dependencies in our company 3rd parties local repository using Nexus "upload artifact page".

Once it's done, My POM dependencies now are

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.glassfish.appclient</groupId>
        <artifactId>gf-client</artifactId>
        <version>3.1</version>
        <type>pom</type>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.glassfish.external.jms</groupId>
        <artifactId>imqjmsra</artifactId>
        <version>3.1.0</version>
    </dependency>

And I can totally poll my JMS queue.

With which maven dependencies can i create a standalone JMS client for Glassfish?

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