Hi,
I am trying to configure OpenEJB as part of an Eclipse rich-client platform (RCP) application that I am developing. I have managed to package OpenEJB 3.1 as an Eclipse plug-in by "rebundling" the OpenEJB lib folder as an Eclipse RCP plug-in project. This is to get round the problem with the javaee-api jar file not being a valid OSGi bundle, but also to avoid generating a separate plug-in for every jar file in the OpenEJB server. So far, I have managed to get unit tests to work successfully with my OpenEJB plug-in as a "buddy" of my plug-in that defines the EJBs. I am running the tests in a fragment of the EJB plug-in. However, this relied on the test plug-in to configure and start the OpenEJB server, something I'm not particularly happy with. Anyway, I'm currently trying to get OpenEJB to start the server when its plug-in is activated, and then deploy and undeploy applications when other plug-ins are started and stopped. This would use the OSGi service framework and the so-called "white-board" model (see [1]). However, for this to work, I must be able to dynamically deploy an application on the local server after the server has started (and, for example, after the test plug-in fragment has properly configured the test database for my EJBs). This is where I am having problems. I've spent some time looking through the OpenEJB source to try and work out how an application is deployed, and I think I want to use the Deployer.deploy() method from the DeployerEjb class. Alas, I cannot work out how to get access to this object from within my own code. As far as I can see, the only examples of using this method directly in the OpenEJB code rely on doing a JNDI lookup of "openejb/DeployerBusinessRemote", and this name does not appear to be bound in a local server. Can anyone point me towards examples of deploying and undeploying applications on a local OpenEJB server from within Java code? Many thanks, Deryck Brown References [1] http://www.knopflerfish.org/osgi_service_tutorial.html#white -- Dr Deryck F Brown Software Engineer Ziebel UK Ltd Unit A, Broadfold Road, Bridge of Don, Aberdeen AB23 8EE
