Seperate entities deployment

[mzeijen]

I was pondering about if something is possible. Maybe it sounds a bit strange because I am still inexpirienced with a lot of parts of the J2EE EJB3, Seam, Portlets development.

I would like to create a set of portlets that use Seam. They all use the same database en also the same entity beans. What I know from ejb3 is that you could create a seperate ear deployment with only the entity beans and other deployments with the seperate portlets. You could retrieve the entity beans over jndi.

My question is how do I combine this with Seam? Can I use this deployment schema and still access these entities easily from the Seam powerd Portlets?

[mzeijen]

Does nobody have any idea if this could work?

[gavin.king]

You could retrieve the entity beans over jndi.

You cannot do this in EJB3. (You did used to be able to do it in EJB2.) Instead you should create an EJB jar with your entities and deploy it into each EAR.

[mzeijen]

I had a feeling that I would need to do that. But that isn't also really a problem. Maybe it is even better is some cases.