Krishnakumar, The ejb-link entry defines if the ejb-local-ref refers to an EJB in the same archive (either the same JAR/EAR). If you partition your EJBs to reside within the same physical process, but in different modules (JARs or EARs), you'd need to provide additional information.
Regarding (b), I believe the spec authors have clarified this. And as to the difficulty of defining ejb references in every calling bean - this is a one-time development cost only; and a lot of tools can hide this aspect from you. Btw, you can note the use of ejb-local-ref tags in every example in the EJB spec, the J2EE blueprints, the CTS etc,. -krish ----- Original Message ----- From: Krishnakumar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2003 7:45 am Subject: Re: how not to look up local Ejbs > Krish, > > I do not understand the issue here completely. I am confused by > a couple > of things here. > > (a) If references to local homes are to be obtained only > by using > <ejb-local-ref> elements in the ejb-jar.xml, then why is the <ejb- > link>element optional in the DTD? Isn't that the only way to tell > the ejb > container the actual EJB reference to get hold of? I am assuming > that the > other information (<local> and <local-home>) are not sufficient > for the > container to pinpoint the ejb expected. > > (b) While it may inefficient to bind local ejbs to the > global jndi > and looking them up, is it actually incorrect? For example, I have > sessionbeans which may access dozens of local ejbs directly and > may be another > dozen local ejbs thru the plain java classes that it invokes. Now, > to repeat > this list of 20-odd references in each and every <session> bean > definitionwill be difficult, especially in the beginning stages of > the development. > So, the question is, is the use of global JNDI tree for local ejbs > expresslyprohibited by the spec? > > Cheers, > =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
