Re: EJB bites back
Lew wrote:
sasuke wrote:
For the past few days I have been trying to understand the complicated
concept behind EJB 3 but to no avail. I even haven't been able to run
a sample 'Hello world' app using the Netbeans IDE. Here are a few
questions I have in mind:
2 Do I have to package the entire j2ee.jar file and give it to the
client(desktop application) if they want to avail the services of the
EJB components deployed on my server. I ask this because when
programming the client we use the @EJB annotation to dynamically
locate and inject the EJB inside the EJB reference.
Quoting from <http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc/bnbls.html>
Enterprise beans run in the EJB container, a runtime environment
within the Application Server (see Container Types).
You need an app server like JBoss or GlassFish.
Oh, you're trying to annotate the client side.
<http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc/bnbmg.html#bnbmh>
To create an enterprise bean that allows remote access, you must do one of the following:
* Decorate the business interface of the enterprise bean with the @Remote annotation:
@Remote
public interface InterfaceName { ... }
* Decorate the bean class with @Remote, specifying the business interface or interfaces:
@Remote(InterfaceName.class)
public class BeanName implements InterfaceName { ... }
Now I'm reading
<http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc/bnbnj.html>
for the client side.
the application client container injects the resource references at runtime.
It seems that besides JBoss and GlassFish (and WebLogic and WebSphere and
....), there is a little program from Sun called 'appclient' that will run the
client app.
<http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-3675/appclient-1m?a=view>
I never knew that. I always thought you needed an app server to run EJB
clients. Turns out, not all containers are app servers.
--
Lew
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