Referencing an EJB from a scheduled task

[jgkenned]

I have written a class that runs on a schedule. I'm using the Schedulable interface. Here's a snippet:

public class PropertyAutoNotify implements Schedulable
{
 private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(PropertyAutoNotify.class);

 private String mail_jndi = null;
 private String ds_jndi = null;
 private String mail_from = null;


 public PropertyAutoNotify(String mail_jndi, String ds_jndi, String mail_from)
 {
 this.mail_jndi = mail_jndi;
 this.ds_jndi = ds_jndi;
 this.mail_from = mail_from;
 log.info("mail jndi name = " + mail_jndi);
 log.info("datasource jndi name = " + ds_jndi);
 log.info("mail from addr = " + mail_from);
 }

 public void perform(Date now, long remainingRepetitions)
 {
 log.info("perform, now: " + now +
 ", remainingRepetitions: " + remainingRepetitions );

 //processUserSearch();
 executeAgent();
 }


 private void executeAgent()
 {
 try
 {

I'm trying to reference an EJB from this code. It does not make sense to use the ENC because I'm not in a J2EE container. So how do a get a home interface from a scheduled task? I tried this:

try
 {
 Context initCtx = new InitialContext();
 Object ref = initCtx.lookup("java:/ejb/rwTenantSearch");
 TenantSearchHome home = (TenantSearchHome)
 PortableRemoteObject.narrow(ref, TenantSearchHome.class);

 Collection searches = home.findByAutoNotify("Y");
 log.info("number of searches = " + searches.size());
 }
 catch (Exception e)
 {
 log.error("Service Exception", e);
 }

Didn't work.

Thanks for any help. Code examples would be good. I don't want to have to clone my business logic in 2 places.

[dannyyates]

You haven't said what's wrong, but I suspect you're getting Naming exceptions saying something like 'ejb not bound'. The global JNDI name of your bean will be something like /ejb/rwTenantSearch. Beans are not bound under the java: namespace.

[jgkenned]

Yes, I am getting naming exceptions. I will try your suggestion.

Thanks

[ware]

hello,

i'm trying to call from my schedule class the ejb but i'm getting the exception: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError....
my schedle class is in a jar my file in the LIB directory of my web application and all the ejbs are in a jar file in the deploy jar and work fine beside my in schedule class...

what can i do?

10x ahead,
netanel