Access Stateless Session Bean from Servlet

[ryoung2504]

I've managed to get all the tutorial examples working and I really like what I see.
As stateless session beans no longer have a home interface (local or remote) then what is the correct syntax for exposing them to a servlet?

For EJB upto 2.1 looking up a bean using "java:comp/env/ejb/ContentServiceSlEjbLocal" with the following in web.xml worked:-

<ejb-local-ref >
<ejb-ref-name>ejb/ContentServiceSlEjbLocal</ejb-ref-name>
<ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type>
<local-home>com.xxx.ejb.ContentServiceSlEjbLocalHome</local-home>
com.xxx.ejb.ContentServiceSlEjbLocal
<ejb-link>ContentServiceSlEjb</ejb-link>
</ejb-local-ref>

However I just can't seem to be able to get hold of an EJB3 stateless bean from a servlet; Dropping the <local-home> in the web xml causes jBoss to reject the deployment and leaving <ejb-local-ref> out completly gives a name not found exception (as with 2.1).

[bill.burke]

There are no homes in EJB 3.0 and the XML for ejb-refs has not yet been decided by the EG.

Just do a straight JNDI lookup:

ContentServiceSLEjbLocal local = (ContentServiceSLEjbLocal)ctx.lookup(ContentServiceSLEjbLocal.class.getName());

Bill

[ryoung2504]

It turned out that my actual problem was that I had 'build before lauch' set in Eclipse and it was compiling my classes rather than my ant script. Now I've turned the option off and removed the ejb-refs from my web.xml everything works fine.