How to access EJB3 beans from a portlet !???

[stefnef]

Hi all.

We have an app. on a clustered jboss deployed as an .ear file in the farm folder. It is a webapp backed by JMS + EJB3 beans (local interfaces) and runs fine.

Now I am messing around with portlets and of course I want to invoke our business code in the EJB3 beans from a portlet.

Big question is : How do I do that !??

I tried to deploy the portlet as a .war bundled within the .ear file, but that didn't do any good :-(

Deploying the portlet as a standalone .war file in the deploy folder works, but how do I then access the EJB3 beans !??

Cheers,
Steffen

System: JBoss 4.2.1.GA + JBoss Portal 2.6.1

[stefnef]

I found the solution myself. Bundle the helloworldjspportlet.war inside the .ear file and add this to the application.xml in the META-INF folder :


helloworldjspportlet.war


That's it !
Sorry for the premature post...;-)

[stefnef]

Sorry..I am new to these forums ... here should be the missing code lines :

<module id="HelloWorldJSPPortlet">
 <java>helloworldjspportlet.war</java>
</module>

If that didn't work then the idea is to add the module as a java module
in the application.xml file and not a war module !

[rododendro]

Hi, I have the same problem you described, have you found a solution?

Thanks
Ivan

[soon5]

Hy,

Why don't you use JNDI to get the EJBs and access them?

Greetings Soon5

[je.a.le]

in netbeans, right click on editor, "entreprise resources"->call entreprise bean
select your ejb, remote/local depending where you add your portlet.

netbean add a method to your portlet for you... except the jndi is wrong :-)
so too call an ejb "MediaDirSessionBean", from the application project "AC", with local interface, jndi is : "AC/MediaDirSessionBean/local"

the full function should look like this one :
private MediaDirSessionLocal lookupMediaDirSessionBean() {
try {
Context c = new InitialContext();
return (MediaDirSessionLocal) c.lookup("AC/MediaDirSessionBean/local");
} catch (NamingException ne) {
java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(getClass().getName()).log(java.util.logging.Level.SEVERE, "exception caught", ne);
throw new RuntimeException(ne);
}
}

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