Web App calling standalone EJB

[Bruno Custodio - Datacomp DSCB]

Hi there,

 

I've recently installed Geronimo v1.0. I am still adapting, as i was using JBOSS previously.

 

In JBOSS i had a Web application (.war) and a separate EJB named RemoteOperationEJB.jar. From the web application i was doing the lookup of the EJB with no problems, creating the object and calling its methods.

 

Now in Geronimo i'm having problems to replicate the same scenario. I was able to deploy the EJB and the WAR files separately but when i try to run the web application and call the EJB i'm having a "NoClassDefFound" exception in the narrow!

 

First of all, is this possible to do in Geronimo, having a web app calling a EJB that are NOT part of a EAR?

 

If so, then i mostly sure have an error in the XML descriptors. Below i put each of them:

 

EJB-JAR.xml

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE ejb-jar PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/ejb-jar_2_0.dtd">

<ejb-jar>
   <enterprise-beans>   
      <session>
         <ejb-name>RemoteOperationEJB</ejb-name>
         <home>com.datacomp.am.ejb.RemoteOperationHome</home>        
         <remote>com.datacomp.am.ejb.RemoteOperation</remote>
         <local-home>com.datacomp.am.ejb.RemoteOperationLocalHome</local-home>
         <local>com.datacomp.am.ejb.RemoteOperationLocal</local>
         <ejb-class>com.datacomp.am.ejb.RemoteOperationBean</ejb-class>
         <session-type>Stateless</session-type>
         <transaction-type>Container</transaction-type>           
      </session>
   </enterprise-beans>
</ejb-jar>

openejb-jar.xml

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<openejb-jar
    xmlns="http://www.openejb.org/xml/ns/openejb-jar"
    configId="RemoteOperationEJB"
    parentId="geronimo/j2ee-server/1.0/car">

    <enterprise-beans>
        <session>
            <ejb-name>RemoteOperationEJB</ejb-name>
            <jndi-name>ejb/RemoteOperationEJB</jndi-name>
        </session>
    </enterprise-beans>
</openejb-jar>

web.xml

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
  version="2.4">
 
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>LoginServlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>com.datacomp.tp.LoginServlet</servlet-class>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>LoginServlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/LoginServlet</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

    <session-config>
        <session-timeout>30</session-timeout>
    </session-config>
  
    <ejb-ref>
        <description>EJB Reference to the bean deployed to OpenEJB</description> 
       <ejb-ref-name>ejb/RemoteOperationEJB</ejb-ref-name>
        <ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type>
        <home>com.datacomp.am.ejb.RemoteOperationHome</home>
        <remote>com.datacomp.am.ejb.RemoteOperation</remote>
    </ejb-ref>  
</web-app>

 

geronimo-web.xml

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app
 xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web-1.0"
 xmlns:naming="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/naming-1.0"
 configId="TestPunch">

 <naming:ejb-ref>
  <naming:ref-name>ejb/RemoteOperationEJB</naming:ref-name>
  <naming:target-name>geronimo.server:J2EEModule=RemoteOperationEJB.jar,J2EEServer=geronimo,j2eeType=StatelessSessionBean,name=RemoteOperationEJB</naming:target-name>
 </naming:ejb-ref> 
</web-app>

 

In my JAVA code i'm doing the following:

 

      //reference to the remote object
      Object objref = null;
      try {
         //get initial context and lookup EJB
         objref = ictx.lookup("java:comp/env/ejb/RemoteOperationEJB");
      } catch (NamingException e) {
         //some problem looking up the remote object
         e.printStackTrace();
         return null;
      }

      RemoteOperationHome home = (RemoteOperationHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(objref, RemoteOperationHome.class);
      try  {
         return home.create();
      } catch (javax.ejb.CreateException ec)  {
         ec.printStackTrace();
      } catch (RemoteException re) {
         re.printStackTrace();
      }
      return null;
   }

And it gives that exception in the narrow command!

 

 

any possible help is welcome!

 

thanks in advance,

 

best regards,

Bruno Custódio