Hi andreas, On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Andreas Veithen <andreas.veit...@gmail.com > wrote:
> Some quick comments: > > * There have been lots of changes in EJB3, but AFAIK the only ones > relevant for Axis2 are those regarding the client view of a stateless > session bean. The only major change in that area is the removal of the > home interface. To cope with that you probably don't need to drop the > support for EJB2. > Agreed. will focus on sumedha's idea as well. > * People who use EJB3 embrace the J2EE specs and are likely to use the > Web service client view (i.e. the JAX-WS support provided by the > container) to expose their beans as Web Services. That is also much > more powerful than the RPC stuff in Axis2. Therefore it is actually > not unlikely that there are more people interested in EJB2 support (to > expose their legacy beans as Web services) than in EJB3 support. > AFAIU jax-ws support is only provided for stateless session beans. Also there are lots of ejb2 to ejb3 conversion tools available. thanks and regards, > > Andreas > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 03:03, Supun Malinga <sup...@wso2.com> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > axis2 supports exposing ejb2 components as web-services. Refer [1]. This > is > > handles via extending Message receiver to look-up jndi contexts and > handle > > invocations. > > For eg: org.apache.axis2.rpc.receivers.ejb.EJBInOnlyMessageReceiver > > org.apache.axis2.rpc.receivers.ejb.EJBMessageReceiver > > Currently this implementation works with ejb 2.0. > > Since ejb 3.x has changed lot(from architectural level) since ejb2 this > > implementation is not usable with ejb 3. I'm working on improving it to > > support ejb 3.0. > > But we may have to move away from support for ejb2 while doing this. As > ejb > > 2 is a pretty old standard [2] and ejb 3 is widely used. > > I'am still working to come up with a implementation for this. > > Ideas, comments are much appreciated. > > [1] http://axis.apache.org/axis2/java/core/docs/ejb-provider.html > > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_JavaBean#Version_history > > > > thanks, > > -- > > Supun Malinga, > > > > Software Engineer, > > WSO2 Inc. > > http://wso2.com > > http://wso2.org > > email - sup...@wso2.com > > mobile - 071 56 91 321 > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@axis.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@axis.apache.org > > -- Supun Malinga, Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc. http://wso2.com http://wso2.org email - sup...@wso2.com <sup...@wso2.com> mobile - 071 56 91 321
