I have a simple EJB HelloWorld.jar and it gets deployed successfully, but when I run a java client for that EJB, I get error as follows:
******************************************* C:\jboss-3.0.4\client>java -classpath .;jboss-j2ee.jar com.vigorsoft.ejb.HelloClient in HelloClient in HelloClient 1 in HelloClient 2 in HelloClient 3 Exception in thread "main" javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file: java.naming.factory.initial at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(Unknown Source) at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(Unknown Source) at javax.naming.InitialContext.getURLOrDefaultInitCtx(Unknown Source) at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(Unknown Source) at com.vigorsoft.ejb.HelloClient.main(HelloClient.java:44) ************************************** My Client and EJB files are as follows: ****************************************** Client.java package com.vigorsoft.ejb; import javax.naming.Context; import javax.naming.InitialContext; import javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject; import java.util.Properties; public class HelloClient { public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception { System.out.println("in HelloClient"); Properties props = System.getProperties(); System.out.println("in HelloClient 1"); Context ctx = new InitialContext(props); System.out.println("in HelloClient 2 "); //Object ob = ctx.addToEnvironment("HelloHome",HelloHome.class); System.out.println("in HelloClient 3 "); Object obj = ctx.lookup("HelloHome"); //I also tried using Object obj = ctx.lookup("Hello"), but same result System.out.println("in HelloClient 4"); HelloHome home = (HelloHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow( obj,HelloHome.class); System.out.println("in HelloClient 5"); Hello hello = home.create(); System.out.println("in HelloClient 6"); System.out.println(hello.hello()); } } ******************************************** HelloHome.java (home interface) package com.vigorsoft.ejb; import javax.ejb.EJBHome; import java.rmi.RemoteException; import javax.ejb.CreateException; import javax.ejb.EJBException; public interface HelloHome extends EJBHome{ //This method creates an EJB Object and returns that Object Hello create() throws EJBException, RemoteException, CreateException; } *************************************** Hello.java (remote interface) package com.vigorsoft.ejb; import javax.ejb.EJBObject; import java.rmi.RemoteException; public interface Hello extends EJBObject{ // This method returns a greeting to client public String hello() throws RemoteException; } ************************************ HelloBean.java package com.vigorsoft.ejb; import java.rmi.RemoteException; import javax.ejb.EJBException; import javax.ejb.SessionBean; import javax.ejb.SessionContext; public class HelloBean implements SessionBean { public void ejbCreate() throws EJBException, RemoteException { System.out.println("ejbCreate()"); } public void ejbActivate() throws EJBException, RemoteException { System.out.println("ejbActivate()"); } public void ejbPassivate() throws EJBException, RemoteException { System.out.println("ejbActivate()"); } public void ejbRemove() throws EJBException, RemoteException { System.out.println("ejbActivate()"); } public void setSessionContext(SessionContext arg0) throws EJBException, RemoteException { } public String hello(){ System.out.println("in hello method of bean"); return("Hello World"); } } **************************************** ejb-jar.xml in META-INF directory parallal to com directory <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE jboss PUBLIC "-//JBoss//DTD JBOSS 2.4//EN" "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss_2_4.dtd"> <ejb-jar> <enterprise-beans> <ejb-name>Hello</ejb-name> com.vigorsoft.ejb.HelloHome com.vigorsoft.ejb.Hello <ejb-class>com.vigorsoft.ejb.HelloBean</ejb-class> <session-type>Stateless</session-type> <transaction-type>Container</transaction-type> </enterprise-beans> </ejb-jar> *********************************************** Please help me to solve this error.. Thanks, Vishal <a href="http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3827578#3827578">View the original post</a> <a href="http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3827578>Reply to the post</a> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user