SLBs cyclic dependencies

[yandosh]

I would like to ask a question about cyclic dependencies between EJB. I have 3 stateless EJBs: A depends on B, B depends on C, C depends on A. EJBs refuse to deploy due to MBeans waiting for other MBeans error.
My question is: Is there really any kind of limitation of cyclic dependencies between stateless session beans? If there is why and is there any "workaround" to make the EJBs deploy? Thanks in advance.

Frantisek Jandos

[bill.burke]

Yes, use the @org.jboss.annotation.IgnoreDependency annotation. THere is also an XML equivalent

i.e.

@EJB @IgnoreDependency MyEJB ref;

or

jboss.xml

<jboss>
 <enterprise-beans>
 <session>
 <ejb-name>Session2Bean</ejb-name>
 <ejb-ref>
 <ejb-ref-name>session1</ejb-ref-name>
 <ignore-dependency/>
 </ejb-ref>
 </session>
 </enterprise-beans>
</jboss>

[bill.burke]

use @IgnoreDependency to break the cyclic chain.