Access an EJB from a servlet

[namezero912]

Hello. Up to now I was able to access a EJB from a pure Java client with code similar to this one:

Context context = new InitialContext();
MyBeanRemote beanRemote = (MyBeanRemote)context.lookup("MyBean/remote");

But how do I access an EJB from a servlet? Please note that the code above is NOT working within a servlet (at least not here) !! It will throw this exception:

java.lang.ClassCastException: $Proxy141 cannot be cast to com.myself.MyBeanRemote

Any help is appreciated! :)

[jaikiran]

See this http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ClassCastExceptions

Probably, you have the bean interface in more than one place. How have you packaged your application? Is it a ear file?

[namezero912]

Thank you, giving this hint solved my problem. The ejb itself was properly deployed (I had a common.jar file that had the two interfaces and serverside ejb file which had the ejb class as jar, and another ear file that contained both jar files as modules). However, I thought that I would also have to put the common.jar into the lib/ dir of the servlet.war file which was not the case.

Kind regards,
Marius Shekow