EJB3 <ejb-local-ref> not working

[daedalus_hammer]

Hi
I'm trying to use a local interface of an ejb3 in a Servlet and annotatig with @EJB won't work (jboss-4.2.2.GA) so I'm trying to inject the bean in java:comp/env/ via web.xml.
But wen I try to use <ejb-local-ref> :

<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
<display-name>Web Interface</display-name>

.............................................

<ejb-local-ref>
<ejb-ref-name>ejb/UserBean</ejb-ref-name>
<ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type>
com.website.Statefull.UserBeanLocal
</ejb-local-ref>

</web-app>

jboss complains:

org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: Failed to parse WEB-INF/web.xml; - nes
ted throwable: (org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: expected one local-hom
e tag)
at org.jboss.web.AbstractWebContainer.parseMetaData(AbstractWebContainer
.java:755)
at org.jboss.web.AbstractWebContainer.init(AbstractWebContainer.java:356
)

So I'm guessing it's complaining about tag and it expects <local-home> tag (priori to ejb 3?).
But I don't understand why, I set the id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5".

Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks!

[waynebaylor]

you will also need a jboss-web.xml to map "ejb/UserBean" to the global JNDI name for com.website.Statefull.UserBeanLocal.

[daedalus_hammer]

Ok, I added a jboss-web.xml :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jboss-web>
<ejb-local-ref>
<ejb-ref-name>ejb/UserBean</ejb-ref-name>
<ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type>
com.website.Statefull.UserBeanLocal
</ejb-local-ref>
</jboss-web>

But now, the exception changes to "org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: expected one local-home tag" .
Any other idea?
Thanks!

[daedalus_hammer]

I fixed it, and in case anybody stumbles across this problem here's what I found:

1.Jboss doesn't fully support version 2.5 so, in web.xml you should add both and <local-home> to point to the same thing(though I think <local-home> should be added just so the parser won't yell something's wrong)
2. in jboss-web.xml you should also add <local-jndi-name> which should be something like YourApp/YourBean/local -- which tells jboss -- map the bean YourApp/YourBean/local (proprietary jboss naming format) to java:/comp/env/ejb/YourBean (if you set your <ejb-ref-name> to ejb/YourBean)