Hi, I am just starting to mess with EJB and I actually think it wont be as hard as I originally thought. I read the CMP Primer and Orion Primer and I think those two articles are decent, although it would have been more meaningful if they used packages and what not..the source problably does. Anyways, I am wondering..is there any way I can create EJBs, deploy them, without having to package up the META-INF dir, the 3 classes (per ejb), and put them in a .jar file, then set up all that stuff (the xmls)? IT seems as I develop, every time I make a change I will have to repackage it to deploy it..that will without a doubt be a lot longer development cycle than I had anticipated. Is there any way to just point to the same WEB-INF/classes folder that I compile all my code to? I have a package structure like: com com/company com/company/ejb com/company/ui com/company/ui/beans com/company/ui/servlets com/company/ui/tags com/company/core When I compile, the whole project is compiled to /www/WEB-INF/classes. I see in the application.xml the <module>ejb.jar</module> tag.. I have a <module>/web-path/</module> for my web module. So can I specify a dir (using c:\\ or something) to the WEB-INF\classes dir that points to com/company/ejb package name so that it will find my ejbs, deploy them, etc? Before I forget..I am using Orion 1.3.7, and I only have one server running. So my entire application, including the servlets/jsp/beans are in the same server as the ejb will be in (once I can get them deployed). Will that be a problem as far as how the servlets look up the ejbs, get the home, and call on the objects if its in the same server, and when I move it to a different server (2nd tier..network access, etc)? I would think not, but I just want to make sure. Basically..I am a newbie to ejb and especially with Orion, so any pointers on how to develop ejb effeciently with Orion would be a big plus. Thanks.
