Problem in accessing local home interface

[imsathya]

Hi,

I am facing a curious problem ! When I try to access an entity bean from a session facade locally using the component name of the bean, I get a ejb not bound error. This does not happen if I specify the JNDI name !

From jboss.xml :

 <entity>
 <ejb-name>Journal</ejb-name>
 <jndi-name>ejb/JournalHome</jndi-name>
 <local-jndi-name>ejb/JournalLocalHome</local-jndi-name>

 <method-attributes>
 </method-attributes>

 </entity>

Now when I try to use the component name :

InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();

JournalLocalHome home = (JournalLocalHome) ic.lookup("java:comp/env/ejb/JournalLocalHome");

I get the below error :

javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: ejb not bound
 at org.jnp.server.NamingServer.getBinding(NamingServer.java:495)
 at org.jnp.server.NamingServer.getBinding(NamingServer.java:503)
 at org.jnp.server.NamingServer.getObject(NamingServer.java:509)
 at org.jnp.server.NamingServer.lookup(NamingServer.java:253)
 at org.jnp.server.NamingServer.lookup(NamingServer.java:256)

But when I do the lookup with the JNDI name :

InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();

JournalLocalHome home = (JournalLocalHome) ic.lookup("ejb/JournalLocalHome");

it works just fine !

Any configuration I need to do to make the bean accessible by component name ?

Thanks.

[darranl]

To make another bean visible under the java:comp/env namespace of the bean making the lookup call you need to add a <ejb-local-ref> element to the definition of the bean performing the lookup in the ejb-jar.xml.

The details of this are documented in the dtd.

You can use JNDI View from JMX Console to check the java:comp/env namespace of your individual components.