using Tomcat to serve EJB requests

[choyb]

Dear all,

I am a newbie to EJB.

I have machine 'A' running Tomcat and machne 'B' running JBoss , I'd like Tomcat on machine 'A' to serve up EJB requests instead of using the embedded Tomcat of Jboss on machine 'B'.

How can I configure , guess via JNDI to achieve that ?

Thanks for any hints

Look forward to any reply.

Brian

[cjc]

Hi,

I have the same configuration. I did copy the lib's from Jboss to webapps/"something"/WEB-INF/lib

jbossall-client.jar
jboss-aop-jdk50-client.jar
jboss-aspect-jdk50-client.jar
jboss-aspect-library-jdk50.jar
jboss-ejb3-client.jar
jboss-ejb3x.jar
ejb3-persistence.jar
hibernate-client.jar
jmx-client.jar

put a jndi.properties file in classpath (webapps/"something"/WEB-INF/classes)

java.naming.factory.initial=org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory

java.naming.factory.url.pkgs=org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces

java.naming.provider.url=jnp://"otherMachine":1099

and importend add the starting parameter to Tomcat -nonaming

EJB 3.0 lookup

InitialContext itx = new InitialContext();
ModulDataManager modulDataManager = (ModulDataManager) itx.lookup("ModulDataManagerBean/remote");

I think this is very dirty but works easy. I woud be happy to have a nicer way! Mainly the "-nonaming" i did't like!

[rupshall]

I hate to reanimate this post but it is exactly what I want to do. I'm running Tomcat 5.5.23 and attempting to access EJB on a 4.0.5.GA JBoss server.

I have copied my jndi.properties into WEB-INF/classes and I have jbossall-client.jar in WEB-INF/lib. I have 2 cases:
1. When I have jbossall-client.jar in WEB-INF/lib in get java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/ejb/CreateException
2. When I move jbossclient-all.jar to shared/lib I get javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Name UtilitiesFacadeEJB is not bound in this Context

In case 1 its clear it doesn't find the jbossall-client.jar, why would that be? In case 2 it does find the required JBoss classes but is unable to locate the EJB. It doesn't appear to be finding jndi.properties.

I tried to pass the -nonaming into the tomcat startup.sh script but my Tomcat instance doesn't appear to start when I do.

I have spend all day searching forums and google, trying everything I find with no luck. Can somebody point me in the proper direction?