Hi All,

I'm trying to resume here the discussion I had yesterday on IRC with
Brian and Jesper.

Basically JCA needs to have and already deployed instance of
ResourceAdapter when adding its metrics and some operation. The reason
for that is because some operation and metrics availability are known
only at runtime, depending from RA status and/or vendor specific feature
known only.

Speaking from a Model point of view the basically issue is to have
access to the ModelNodeRegistration when the RA instance is created and
these runtime infos are available. There are 2 cases:

1) during handling ADD operation for a DataSource or special
ResourceAdapter creation withour rar deployment (like hornetQ).
2) during foo.rar deployment chain

We have also discussed where we can put these operation in the model
tree. Also in this case there are two possible places:

1) at subsystem level for special no-deployment RA (DataSources and
HornetQ atm). So we will obtain something like
/subsystem=datasource/data-source=myDS and /subsystem=hq/ra
2) at DUP level /deployment=foo.rar Having this deployment support we
can remove the current operation in /subsystem=resource-adapters that is
redudant, referring the same RA (or better a subset of deployed ones)

Hoping to have written all the matters discussed, feel free to integrate
and/or ask.

regards
S.