Wrapper-Plugin to access EJBeans?

[flitzie]

Dear Developers,

i have read that there is an alternative solution for CORBA-clients, which doesn't support OBV (valuetypes), to access an EJB via an wrapper-object. This wrapper-object is a normal CORBA-object with a simple and clear interface, which can be accessed by all CORBA-clients. It runs on the AppServer and redirects the client requests to the public methods of an EJB via RMI or RMI-IIOP. My task is not to write an extra standalone Java wrapper-server.

Does JBoss support such a solution?

Does anybody know an AppServer which support such a wrapper-Plugin except IONA Orbix?

Great thanks for any hint or advice.

Flitzie

[dimitris]

From my "CORBA days" I remember this is something you have to do by hand, i.e. code this "gateway" that maps your EJB interface to a more CORBA friendly interface. It's like developing any normal CORBA interface.

If there was an automatic way to do this then, I guess, the Java->IDL mapping would have been different!

My 2 cents

Regards
/Dimitris

[flitzie]

Thx for your post, but i guess this is not what i am looking for.

To make it more clear. Have a closer look at
http://www.iona.com/whitepapers/CORBA-EJBInteropWPV02-00.pdf

As you can see there are 2 different ways to acces an EJB. But if you have to access an EJB with CORBA 2.0 ORBs then you have no chance with a so called "CORBA-Friendly EJB" except with wrapper. I am looking for a wrapper-plugin for application server or a possibility to write a wrapper, which can be deployed in an ejb.

Thanks for any help.

flitzie

[dimitris]

Had a quick look at the whitepaper, again, there are no magic solutions.

The wrapper framework looks more like a design proposal rather than an actual product you can use out of the box.

And it cannot be otherwise, because there is no good/simple Java(EJB) -> IDL mapping. You'll have to make some short of compromise and most of all design your EJB interfaces having IDL in mind.

This is my understanding
/Dimitris