jsp + ejb local + apache problem--please help

[yasirsk]

Please help.

I've spent two days trying to get a JSP Page to access a local interface for an EJB. im using Jboss2.4.4. Catalina 4.x and apache 1.3

I have an EAR file , the ear file has a .jar file with the EJB's and a WAR file with the servlets.

the ejb-jar.xml file in the EJB's JAR has:

.....
<ejb-local-ref>
<ejb-ref-name>PageServiceLocal</ejb-ref-name>
<ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type>
<local-home>salsa.twist.entitys.page.PageServiceLocalHome</local-home>
salsa.twist.entitys.page.PageServiceLocal
<ejb-link>PageService</ejb-link>
</ejb-local-ref>
.....

the web.xml file in the WAR package has:

<ejb-local-ref>
<ejb-ref-name>PageServiceLocal</ejb-ref-name>
<ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type>
<local-home>salsa.twist.entitys.page.PageServiceLocalHome</local-home>
salsa.twist.entitys.page.PageServiceLocal
<ejb-link>PageService</ejb-link>
</ejb-local-ref>

(same as the ejb-jar)

I've tried adding a <local-jndi-name> in the jboss.xml file as well as the jboss-web.xml file. and i am unable to lookup the entity.

Jboss .xml looks like:



<enterprise-beans>

<ejb-name>PageService</ejb-name>
<local-jndi-name>PageServiceLocal</local-jndi-name>

</enterprise-beans>


jboss-web.xml looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jboss-web>
<!-- A reference to an EJB in the same server with a custom JNDI binding -->
<ejb-local-ref>
<ejb-ref-name>PageServiceLocal</ejb-ref-name>
<local-jndi-name>PageServiceLocal</local-jndi-name>
</ejb-local-ref>
</jboss-web>





i've tried looking up with java:comp/env/PageServiceLocal , java:comp/PageServicLocal and ALL combinations of env/local , env/ejb/local with and without the java:comp preceeding it.

After 48 hours of being unable to access all this and not finding anything useful in the forums, i tried to configure Jboss3......dont ask what happened then. Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated. Actual code from source that works would be divine.

[yasirsk]

Many thanks to Dimitri Colebatch for his help for solving this one.

All i had to do was lookup the JNDIViewer accessible from http://localhost:8082/ and list the JNDI bindings , once the bindings showed up, it was a matter of looking thru them and finding tha the ejb is bound under local/PageService and NOT under PageServiceLocal. the problem is solved, but is strange that the ejb deployement descriptor above specifies a xxxLocal , is not being bound.

(incase you dont get the JNDIViewer service, look up the docs under HOW_TO) and you'll find it there. If you are using jboss3+ you'll need to put the mbean code under and place it in the deploy directory with JNDIviewer-service.xml as its name. )