Sorry Michael, could you be more precise about the "EJB spec" part?
I need to do exactly the same as Glenn, but can't find
documentation/tutorials...
andrea
>"Previously, Glenn R Kronschnabl said;"
>> Hi,
>>
>> Are there any good (detailed) examples on how to incorporate 3rd party
>> native libraries into the EJB layer? What I want to do is have a EJB
call
>> a legacy app, and I am unclear on how this is exactly done.
>>
>> Do I have to write a corba layer on top of the native part, then use
>> an orb like omniOrb?
>>
>> Then, do I write a stateless session bean and defer the methods
>> to the corba object?
>>
>> Will this work in all EJB containers? RI, WebLogic? Do I need
>> WebLogic Enterprise? Are there any deployment issues? I assume
>> the corba piece runs outside of the container, correct?
>>
>
> The EJB model for what you want to do is talked about in the
> EJB spec. Essentially you write an entity bean which does
> not map to a database, rather it acts as a wrapper for your
> legacy application. You can think of the legacy application
> as acting a bit like a database in the sense that it will
> presumably be maintaining it's own data store and access
> functions.
> Depending on your legacy calling needs you can probably
> write a bean managed persistance entity bean which has empty
> load and store routines.
>
> ...michael
>
>----
>Michael Richmond
>Information and Communication Sciences e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Macquarie University, Australia phone: (+61 2) 9850 6346
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