How To Access EJBs From Standalone Tomcat 4.1.30 and Jboss 3.2

[Kam Lung Leung]

Hi,


Can I tried the following approach to lookup the EJBs instead of suggested by
the document from 
http://www.amitysolutions.com.au/documents/JBossTomcatJNDI-technote.pdf
 
Here is what I want to do to get the EJBs from tomcat:
1) use an InitialContext object to get the ENC variables that were declared in
the web.xml file. For example,

         <env-entry>
               <env-entry-name>
                     AppServerIPAddr1
               </env-entry-name>
               <env-entry-value>localhost</env-entry-value>
               <env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
         </env-entry>

         <env-entry>
               <env-entry-name>
                      AppServerIPAddr1PortNumber
                </env-entry-name>
                <env-entry-value>1099</env-entry-value>
                <env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
        </env-entry>

        <env-entry>
           <description>INITIAL CONTEXT FACTORY</description>
           <env-entry-name>initialContextFactory</env-entry-name>
           <env-entry-value>
             org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory
           </env-entry-value>
           <env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
        </env-entry>

        <env-entry>
           <env-entry-name>
                  urlPackagePrefixes
           </env-entry-name>
           <env-entry-value>
                  org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces
           </env-entry-value>
           <env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
        </env-entry>

        <ejb-ref>
                <description>Reference to UserController Bean</description>
                <ejb-ref-name>ejb/refToUserControllerBean</ejb-ref-name>
                <ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type>
                <home>
                        
com.wlwa.Infra.BusinessLogic.SessionBeans.Controller.UserControllerRemoteHome
                </home>
                <remote>
                        
com.wlwa.Infra.BusinessLogic.SessionBeans.Controller.UserControllerRemote
                </remote>
                <ejb-link>UserControllerBean</ejb-link>
        </ejb-ref>
        



InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
String applicationServer1IPAddress = (String) ctx.lookUp("AppServerIPAddr1");
String applicationServer1PortNumber = (String)
ctx.lookUp("AppServerIPAddr1PortNumber");
String urlPackagePrefixes = (String) ctx.lookUp("urlPackagePrefixes");
String initialContextFactory = (String) ctx.lookUp("initialContextFactory");

2) Now when I got all information to create a properties object to be used when
create the new InitialContext object for lookup the EJBs outside of the tomcat
space.

String url = "jnp://" + applicationServer1IPAddress + ":" +
applicationServer1PortNumber;
Properties props = new Properties();
props.setProperty(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, initialContextFactory);
props.setProperty(Context.URL_PKG_PREFIXES, urlPackagePrefixes);
props.setProperty(Context.PROVIDER_URL, url);
InitialContext remoteCtx = new InitialContext(props);

3) Now I have a IinitailContext object that point to the Jboss JNDI service at
port 1099. Then I use the following code to access the EJB home object:
...
try {
   anEJBHome = (EJBHome)
PortableRemoteObject.narrow(ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/ejb/refToUserControllerBean"), 
aHomeClass);
    } catch (ClassCastException classCastEx) {
       throw new EJBHomeFactoryException(classCastEx);
    } catch (NamingException namingEx) {
       throw new EJBHomeFactoryException(namingEx);
    }

Here is the ejb declaration for the bean in ejb-jar.xml

        <enterprise-beans>
          <session>
                <display-name>User Access Controller Session Bean</display-name>
                <ejb-name>UserControllerBean</ejb-name>
                <home>
com.wlwa.Infra.BusinessLogic.SessionBeans.Controller.UserControllerRemoteHome
                </home>
                <remote>        
com.wlwa.Infra.BusinessLogic.SessionBeans.Controller.UserControllerRemote
                </remote>
                <ejb-class>                     
com.wlwa.Infra.BusinessLogic.SessionBeans.Controller.UserControllerEJB
                </ejb-class>
                <session-type>Stateless</session-type>
                <transaction-type>Container</transaction-type>
             </session>
        </enterprise-beans>     



Here is the declaration in jboss.xml
Code:

<jboss>
   <enterprise-beans>
      <session>
         <ejb-name>UserControllerBean</ejb-name>
         <jndi-name>UserControllerBeanJNDI</jndi-name>
         <resource-ref>
           <res-ref-name>jdbc/AlertDB</res-ref-name>
           <jndi-name>java:/jdbc/AlertDB</jndi-name>
         </resource-ref>
      </session>
      ......
   <enterprise-beans>
<jboss> 



The UserControllerBean was packaged under a jar file named
InfraSessionBeansControllerModule.jar in an ear file named MyApp.ear that was
deployed in Jboss server in the same box as the tomcat was running.

However, I got NamingException
org.jnp.server.NamingServer.getBinding(NamingServer.java:495)
org.jnp.server.NamingServer.getBinding(NamingServer.java:503)
org.jnp.server.NamingServer.getObject(NamingServer.java:509)
org.jnp.server.NamingServer.lookup(NamingServer.java:253)

Did anyone have try this way to access to EJBs from Tomcat. Or this is not a
good way to lookup EJBs from the web container. Any comment or suggestion is
greatly appreciated.

Kam

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