Error when deploying an .ear file containing an MDB to JBoss - jboss

Question

I am getting the below error while deploying an enterprise archive jar (.ear) to JBoss 7.
Can someone please give me pointers on how to resolve this.
The JBoss log is
14:44:30,812 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-2) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."Demo2.jar".PARSE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."Demo2.jar".PARSE: Failed to process phase PARSE of deployment "Demo2.jar"
at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:119) [jboss-as-server-7.1.1.Final.jar:7.1.1.Final]
at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]
at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
Caused by: org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceNotFoundException: Service service jboss.ejb.default-resource-adapter-name-service not found
at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceContainerImpl.getRequiredService(ServiceContainerImpl.java:447) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]
at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.MessageDrivenComponentDescriptionFactory.getDefaultResourceAdapterName(MessageDrivenComponentDescriptionFactory.java:273)
at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.MessageDrivenComponentDescriptionFactory.processMessageBeans(MessageDrivenComponentDescriptionFactory.java:153)
at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.MessageDrivenComponentDescriptionFactory.processAnnotations(MessageDrivenComponentDescriptionFactory.java:81)
at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.AnnotatedEJBComponentDescriptionDeploymentUnitProcessor.processAnnotations(AnnotatedEJBComponentDescriptionDeploymentUnitProcessor.java:58)
at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.AbstractDeploymentUnitProcessor.deploy(AbstractDeploymentUnitProcessor.java:81)
at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:113) [jboss-as-server-7.1.1.Final.jar:7.1.1.Final]
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Answer 1

Problem is that you are trying to deploy application with MDBs to standalone.xml configuration that does not have messaging support enabled. (messaging subsystem is missing)
if you would run server with standalone-full.xml it would work.
you can do that by running:
./standalone.sh -c standalone-full.xml
on linux or
standalone.bat -c standalone-full.xml
on windows

Answer 2

In Jboss 7.x we need to add
<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:ejb3:1.2">
...
<mdb>
<resource-adapter-ref resource-adapter-name="hornetq-ra"/>
<bean-instance-pool-ref pool-name="mdb-strict-max-pool"/>
</mdb>
...
And hope it will work.

Answer 3

I had the exact same problem, found that I was missing
<mdb>
<resource-adapter-ref resource-adapter-name="hornetq-ra"/>
<bean-instance-pool-ref pool-name="mdb-strict-max-pool"/>
</mdb>
under
<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:ejb3:1.2">
in standalone/configuration/standalone.xml

Answer 4

On Wildfly 10 it is (also in section ):
<mdb>
<resource-adapter-ref resource-adapter-name="${ejb.resource-adapter-name:activemq-ra.rar}"/>
<bean-instance-pool-ref pool-name="mdb-strict-max-pool"/>
</mdb>