anyway to findout which ejbs are available remotely/locally

[jainsau]

Is there a way to find out at runtime (by enquiring the conatiner ?) whether an EJB is available locally or remotely so that I can access the correct proxy without knowing the deployment details?

I need to know this so that I can get the benefits of locally available ejbs. One approach could be to try and first look up a local proxy if available. If it is availbale then use it, otherwise look up the remote proxy and use it. But this requires two lookups in the remote proxy case. Can this be optimized further?

[ejb3workshop]

You could browse the JNDI tree in the same way the JMX console does. Then use either REMOTE or LOCAL to see the type of service.

[jainsau]

any idea how to browse the jndi tree? is there any api provided? how would we get the handle to the jndi tree?

[ejb3workshop]

Get the InitialContext and work your way down using JNDI.

[jainsau]

thanks, will try that.