ejb reference bound in JNDIView, but not in bean context

[cartman]

Hello to all...

once again a stupid I don't know how to handle JNDI question. The reason why I ask it, is because I found no answer in the forum yet. So if there is one, sorry....
I am using JBoss 3.0.3 and deployed some beans.
One of the beans (UserSessionBean) has an ejb reference
to ProductBean. (tried the problem with local and remote
reference). JBoss seems to integrate the reference correctly, as the jndiview of the jmx console outputs
the following:

java:comp namespace of the UserSessionBean bean:

+- env (class: org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext)
| +- ejb (class: org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext)
| | +- ProductLocalHome[link -> ProductBean] (class: javax.naming.LinkRef)

Looks fine to me. But if I try to lookup the home of
ProductBean with something like:

Object obj = (new InitialContext()).lookup("java:comp/env/ejb/ProductLocalHome");
(tried also only "ejb/ProductLocalHome")

inside the UserSessionBean, it says that that name is not bound
and yes, if i output the whole tree of the
root context inside the bean i only get:

ejb: org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext:org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext@1eef0a8
mgmt: org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext:org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext@1f9e529
MEJB: $Proxy14:ejb/mgmt/MEJBHome
jmx: org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext:org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext@133e8c9
ejb: org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext:org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext@f7e9dd
Adaptor: $Proxy21:ejb/jmx/ejb/AdaptorHome

but no ProductBean. So what am I doing wrong?
Thanks for any help.

Yours,

Marcus

[joelvogt]

whats your <ejb-ref-name>? Have you tried doing this lookup?

[cartman]

Hi, thanks for your reply.

my <ejb-ref-name> is ejb/ProductLocalHome, therefore the one i used in the lookup...

[cartman]

Hi to all,

ok, now it get's really interessting. I played a bit more and realized the following:
First I checked the jndiview source and realised that the jndi tree depends on the classloader used. So obviously, in my case the wrong classloader must be used, but why?
If I try to print out the jndi tree in the ejbCreate method anything is fine, the ejb reference is included.
But not if I use some private lookup method inside the bean.
The problem I think is, that my session bean returns an instance of an anonymous class to the client. That anonymous class has access to the private lookup method and tries to uses it. Obviously, the class loader of the client is used in that case, because the ejb reference is not in the jndi tree. But at all, it's an method of the session bean and not of the client, so I think it should have access to the ejb reference.
What do you folks think? Is this a bug of JBoss or is this behaviour intended in the J2EE reference?

Cheers and thanks for any reply,

Marcus