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.