Explanation of local JNDI name

[natebowler]

"natebowler" wrote:
I can access a Local inteface on a Test EJB (stateless session) with the following DD and JSP code.

test.ear
+-test-web.war
+------WEB-INF
+--------------web.xml
+------test.jsp
|
+-test-ejb.jar
+------META-INF
+--------------ejb-jar.xml
+------<ejb classes>

Contents of ejb-jar.xml:

<session >
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<display-name>Test Methods Bean</display-name>
<ejb-name>TestMethods</ejb-name>
<home>com.attask.biz.TestMethodsHome</home>
<remote>com.attask.biz.TestMethods</remote>
<local-home>com.attask.biz.TestMethodsLocalHome</local-home>
<local>com.attask.biz.TestMethodsLocal</local>
<ejb-class>com.attask.biz.TestMethodsBean</ejb-class>
<session-type>Stateless</session-type>
<transaction-type>Container</transaction-type>
</session>

Contents of web.xml - nothing ejb-related (ejb-link, etc.)

Contents of test.jsp

Properties props = System.getProperties();
InitialContext iniCtx = new InitialContext(props);
Object obj = iniCtx.lookup("local/TestMethods");
TestMethodsLocalHome home = (TestMethodsLocalHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(obj, TestMethodsLocalHome.class);
TestMethodsLocal test = home.create();
String echo = test.echo("WOo Hoo");


My question is: How did this become "local/TestMethods"?

The only way I found this is by removing the Remote interfaces and DD and looking in the logs for the deployed EJB/JNDI name on an only-local EJB.

If I have both remote and local, I only see "TestMethods" in the logs. However, "TestMethods" can be used to get remote Home and "local/TestMethods" can be used to get local Home.

Where is this documented? Is this a J2EE standard and implicit, or is this a JBoss-specific naming? If JBoss-specific, can this be changed?

[darranl]

"darranl" wrote:
http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=44556

As far as I am aware, how to register a EJB in JNDI is application server specific.