Problems with JNDI lookups of defined in application-client.xml from a client application...

[Alex Paransky]

I have a client application which has META-INF with the following
application-client.xml definition:

<application-client>
  <ejb-ref>
    <ejb-ref-name>ejb/id</ejb-ref-name>
    <ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type>
    <home>com.indnet.model.id.IdSessionHome</home>
    <remote>com.indnet.model.id.IdSession</remote>
    <ejb-link>Id</ejb-link>
  </ejb-ref>
</application-client>

In the client, I attempt to do the following:

new InitialContext().lookup("ejb/id");

The above fails with the naming exception, telling me that ejb/id cannot be
found:

Exception in thread "main" javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: ejb/id not
found
        at com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIContext.lookup(JAX)
        at com.evermind.naming.jz.lookup(JAX)
        at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:350)
        at com.indnet.model.id.test.Client.main(Client.java:16)

If I change my client line to read:

new InitialContext().lookup("Id");

Things work correctly.  "Id" is the <ejb-name> used for my object:

<enterprise-beans>
    <session>
      <ejb-name>Id</ejb-name>
      <home>com.indnet.model.id.IdSessionHome</home>
      <remote>com.indnet.model.id.IdSession</remote>
      <ejb-class>com.indnet.model.id.IdSessionBean</ejb-class>
      <session-type>Stateless</session-type>
        ...

What is the purpose of application-client.xml if I cannot create references
and use the name specified in <ejb-ref-name> to lookup the components?  Or
am I missing something?

Thanks.
-AP_