JNDI in Jboss EJB3 Embeddable Container: Naming Problem

[unsavory]

Hopefully someone can help me out with this.

I'm running the JBoss EJB3 embeddable server inside Tomcat 6. Everything seems happy enough when booting. I'm trying to access a simple stateless bean named TestBean from within a struts servlet.

I'm getting the following exception:

javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: scrumster not bound
org.jnp.server.NamingServer.getBinding(NamingServer.java:491)

Here is the Bean and interface:

import javax.ejb.Stateless;
import javax.persistence.*;
import java.util.List;

@Stateless
public class TestBean implements TestInterface {

 @PersistenceContext
 EntityManager em;

 public void saveMessages() {
 em.persist("test");
 }

 public void showMessages() {
 List messages =
 em.createQuery("select m from Message m order by m.text asc")
 .getResultList();
 System.out.println(messages.size() + " message(s) found:");
 System.out.println("test");
 }
}

public interface TestInterface {
 public void saveMessages();
 public void showMessages();
}

And here is the calling code:

public String execute() throws Exception {

 Hashtable props = new Hashtable();
 props.put("java.naming.factory.initial", "org.jnp.interfaces.LocalOnlyContextFactory");
 props.put("java.naming.factory.url.pkgs", "org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces");

 InitialContext initialContext = new InitialContext(props);

 TestInterface msgHandler = (TestInterface) initialContext
 .lookup("TestBean/local");

 msgHandler.saveMessages();
 msgHandler.showMessages();

 return SUCCESS;
 }

How do I even know my bean has loaded into the JBoss container? Is there something I need to do to get it to be detected?

Thanks again for any help. I'm having a terrible time getting this setup so I can actually write some code.

[unsavory]

Sorry, please ignore the stack trace posted above. It should read:

javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: TestBean not bound
org.jnp.server.NamingServer.getBinding(NamingServer.java:491)

[fhh]

Your @local annotation is missing.

Regards

Felix

[unsavory]

From reading the documentation I shouldn't need @local for a stateless session bean right? Or am I missing something?

All the examples I look at do not have the @local annotation.

Where would I put that annotation? On the interface? Thanks.

[unsavory]

Ok, I found this in the JBoss docs.

"EJB 3.0 beans must be packaged in a JAR file with the suffix .jar. "

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

Does anyone know if it is possible to have the JBoss deployer scan for class files outside of a .jar?

[fhh]

From reading the documentation I shouldn't need @local for a stateless session bean right?

Nope. On the the page you linked in your first ppost it clearly says:

Take a look at CalculatorRemote.java. To define this as the remote interface of Calculator bean you either annotate the bean class and specify what the remote interfaces are, or you annotate each remote interface the bean class implements with @javax.ejb.Remote. only need to annotate the bean class with @javax.ejb.Remote. Similar for CalculatorLocal.java as you need to annotate the bean class with @javax.ejb.Local for it to be the local interface of the CalculatorBean.

Regards

Felix

[unsavory]

Thanks Felix.

Even after adding the @Local annotation, it is still not working. I even tried adding my bean to the persistence.xml file as follows:

test.TestBean

No go. Any ideas here?