Accessing web service from MBean

[hlehtimaki]

Hi

I'm trying to access a web service from an MBean, but I get javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: env not bound

My code looks like this:

InitialContext iniCtx = new InitialContext();
SmsApiService service = (SmsApiService) iniCtx
 .lookup("java:comp/env/service/SmsApiService");
SmsApiPort endpoint = service.getSmsApi50();

Similar code works in a servlet as I have defined <service-ref> in web.xml. How could I make my MBean to find the service too?

Harri

[thomas.diesler]

AFAIK an MBean does not have an environment context.

Your MBean will have to use DII to construct a the proxy using wsdl + jaxrpc-mapping

http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=WSClientDII

[starksm64]

Correct, an mbean has not JNDI namespace as there is no notion of jndi in the jmx spec. Adding this would be a proprietary extension. With the ejb3 model, and jboss5 pojo model that essentially allows for arbitrary container creation I don't see that we will add support for a java:comp style namespace to mbeans.

[omatzura]

Hi!

We faced the same problem and solved it by creating a local EJB with service-refs to the external webservices we needed to invoke. The EJBs local interface had methods returning the referenced service-endpoint-interfaces which could then be invoked from any component that could look up the ejb (including mbeans, etc)

Is there anything wrong with this approach? (maybe not very "nice" but works just fine.. )

/Ole

[hlehtimaki]

Thanks, Thomas. I'm using DII now and it works fine.

[starksm64]

local ejbs are probably easier than dii, but its just a coding preference at that point.