Alex,
I share your concern.
We hope that 'remote' relationships will be supported in a future
EJB spec revision.
Alex Paransky wrote:
>
> Looking at the latest spec PFD2, it appears that it is not possible to
> establish a unidirectional relationship between two entity beans in separate
> ejb-jar.xml files. With the removal of remote-ejb-name as a possible value
> for <role-souce> it makes integration of two packages impossible without the
> mess of taking and trying to merge two ejb-jar files into one.
>
> Scenario 1:
> We are developing an general accounting package. Our clients need to
> integrate with our package by establishing uni-directional relationships
> from their CMP Entities into what we provide them. Since they will not be
> altering our ejb-jar (except for deployment) how can they reference our
> beans?
>
> Scenario 2:
> Our accounting package contains a good number of CMP Entity beans. Since
> EJB A relates to B, and B relates to C, and C relates to D and E, and E
> relates to G and so on. It is not possible to separate the ejb-jar into
> multiple, smaller, ejb-jar files for the purpose of managing and controlling
> change. With over 100 EJBs a single ejb-jar becomes very unmanageable.
>
> Are there any solutions to these problems?
>
> Thanks.
> Alex Paransky
> Individualnetwork.com
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