In Jboss 4, when I deployed an ear with an MDB for a topic that had not been specified in the deployment descriptors, the server would automatically create the topic (after posting a warning saying that topic didn't exist).
In Jboss 5, it doesn't seem to automatically create the topics anymore (errors out instead). Is there a configuration option somewhere that would allow automatic topic creation?
From the JBoss community forums -- This JIRA was added in 5AS.
Unfortunately it looks like there is no way to implement createDestination globally in the standardjboss.xml descriptor -- You have to add a custom jboss.xml descriptor to the ear deploying the mdb.
<jboss xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.jboss.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/schema/jboss_5_0.xsd" version="3.0">
<enterprise-beans>
<message-driven>
<ejb-name>MessageDriven</ejb-name>
<create-destination>true</create-destination>
</message-driven>
</enterprise-beans>
</jboss>
