Perryn,
<vendor>
In the previous releases of AppServer (4.1.x and prior)
there was only one unit of deployment: an EJB Jar file.
In AppServer 4.5, we now support J2EE 1.2, and therefore
we support a larger unit of deployment: an EAR Jar file.
Thus, with BAS 4.5, you can link EJB references "in
another ejb-jar file within the same J2EE application
unit". That is, you can link EJB references within an
EAR. (Maybe these should be called "ear-links" ;-)
</vendor>
-jkw
Perryn Fowler wrote:
>
> > When the Assembler is done there are no ejb-ref
> >elements without a ejb-link child. So, now it is not
> >optional although the DTD says it is. It is still
> >syntactically optional, but semantically it is
> >required after this step.
>
> Actually the way I interpreted the spec is that
> ejb-links are still optional because although ejb-refs
> must
> be resolved somehow, the spec does not mandate that
> ejb-links must be used to do it ( the words 'may' and
> 'if' crop up a lot ). All it sets in stone is that the
> Deployer must be able to bind the ejb-ref to the home
> of a target bean...
>
> Indeed IAS seems to provide another option for
> specifying this where instead of using ejb-links to
> specify the target bean via its ejb-name, you link the
> ejb-ref directly to the JNDI name of the target.
>
> This is specified in an Inprise-specific DD and of
> course is vendor specific, however it seems to address
> an issue I have with ejb-links:
> Since ejb-links specify
> the ejb-name of the target bean and ejb-names are
> unique within a ejb-jar, it would seem to follow that
> you can only use ejb-links to resolve ejb-refs to
> beans that are in the same jar..
>
> Indeed with IAS this seems to be a restriction and If
> I wish to reference beans in another jar I must use
> the inprise-specific mechanism mentioned above...
>
> yet the spec specifically mentions that ejb-links can
> be used to reference beans "in another ejb-jar file
> within the same J2EE application unit"
>
> am I missing something here?
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