EJB3 with J2EE1.4 clients?

[neelixx]

Are these compatible? It sounds like it would be, as JBoss is running the EJB3's in it's own JVM container, so why would the client care? All it's doing is a lookup on an interface, right?

On the flipside, the interface is annotated using JEE5 annotations, and the client doesn't understand it.

The reason I ask, is my application is being built on EJB3, but I would love to use JSC2.

Maybe webservices would be the way to go here, but would be overkill, as my web application will be running on the same server as JBoss.

Has anyone done this? What workarounds have you used, or ideas that you think might work?

Thanks!
~~Aaron

[bill.burke]

1) Our ejb3 distribution doesn't support Javaee5 webservices yet (BUt it is available in CVS. WS hasn't been backported to jBoss 4 yet)

2) EJB3 has EJB 2.1 adapter interfaces to support old style EJB 2.1 clients that cannot change to use the new model. We support this. See the spec for more details, although I think we migth ahve a tutorial on this too.

[neelixx]

Ooops. Thanks, Bill. Sorry, i missed that one.

http://docs.jboss.org/ejb3/app-server/tutorial/ejb21_client_adaptors/ejb21_client_adaptors.html