Hi, I'm not completely sure what you want to do, but I'll do my best to answer your question. You mention that you were running Tomcat in Eclipse in another post ( http://n4.nabble.com/Tomcat-Integration-problem-td1678990.html#a1680356) which is perhaps adding to some of the confusion. Although we do have an OpenEJB plugin for the WTP functionality, it currently does not support Tomcat, only the standalone OpenEJB server.
I've been looking at a looking at a contribution from Jean-Sébastien Scrève to add Tomcat support to the Eclipse plugin, but have not completed the work to integrate it yet (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OEP-32). I'd be happy to get back onto it once I've cleared a couple of other things off my plate. Or I'd be happy to help if anyone else wants to have a go. Anyway, back to your question - There's essentially three different ways you can run OpenEJB: Embedded, Standalone and in Tomcat. Embedded: --------------- Running OpenEJB in this mode makes it really easy to test your EJBs. As long as you setup your class path correctly you can start OpenEJB in Embedded mode by adding the following code to your test: Properties p = new Properties(); p.setProperty(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "org.apache.openejb.client.LocalInitialContextFactory"); InitialContext context = new InitialContext(p); This will scan your classpath and deploy any EJBs it finds. You can lookup your beans using the usual: EJBObject obj = (EJBObject) context.lookup("EJBJNDIName"); where EJBObject is your EJB's interface, and EJBJNDIName is your EJB's JNDI name. David has put together a video showing how to use the embedded mode to test EJBs in Eclipse: http://vimeo.com/6149008 Standalone --------------- You can run the OpenEJB server in standalone mode, this provides an EJB container that you can access remotely. You can download the standalone server from here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/openejb/3.1.2/openejb-3.1.2.zip. Unzip this, and create two folders in the openejb folder called apps and logs. Copy your .EAR or .JAR with your EJBs to the apps folder you created, and then run 'openejb start' in the bin directory. This will start the server and deploy your beans. You don't get much on STDOUT, so its worth looking at openejb.log in the logs folder. The standalone server is only concerned with EJBs and won't serve up webapps. As mentioned previously you can run the standalone server within Eclipse, and I've done a video demonstrating this: http://vimeo.com/7393498 Tomcat ---------- You can integrate OpenEJB with Tomcat. This gives you the advantage that you can deploy your EJBs along with your webapp. It sounded like you had this working one of your previous posts. Essentially you follow the instructions here: http://openejb.apache.org/tomcat.html which basically involves doing the following: copy openejb.war to Tomcat's webapps folder goto http://localhost:8080/openejb and click the install link, and follow the wizard through. restart Tomcat drop you EAR files in Tomcat's webapps folder and OpenEJB will pick them up and deploy them. Again, have a look at the log files as STDOUT can be quiet. You only need to deploy the openejb.war app to get this working, you don't need the standalone server as well to get this going. We don't have a video for this, but I could make one if that would be useful. Hope that helps. Jon On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:03 AM, hemilshah <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hi, > > Please brief me about using OpenEJB with Tomcat. I am confuse with two > different paths - > > 1) Using OpenEJB as standalone server > 2) Integrating openejb with Tomcat. > > Basically, i want to use EJBs with Tomcat so i have integrated it with > Tomcat as specified on website, but i am unable to deploy EJB. For that it > seems i need use OpenEJB server separately. So is it really required. Just > integrating with Tomcat is not sufficient ? And if it is sufficient, how > shall i deploy EJB to OpenEJB on Tomcat server ? > > Please clarify me about this. > > THanks. > Regards, > Hemil > -- > View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/How-to-use-OpenEJB-with-Tomcat-tp1680307p1680307.html > Sent from the OpenEJB Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
