Using @In to inject a reference to a bean in a different Jar

[eoinbyrne]

Hi guys

I have an ear file containing 2 jars as ejb modules. In jar A I have a bean which extends a pojo in Jar B and uses the @In tag to inject a reference to an ejb in jar b. It seems that the reference is comming out as null.

For the In tag itself I am specifiing create=true and required=true.

Is there some way to inject a reference to a bean in a different jar while still using annotations?

Thanks
Eoin

[thejavafreak]

Have you annotated your bean B with @Name yet?

During initialization Seam will make beans with @Name as components and you should be able to inject it eventhough it is on several jars. Although I havent been in your situation before and haven't tried it yet.

[eoinbyrne]

Sorry for the late responce - just got back from the holiday break.

I have both beans annotated with @Name however the pojo is not. Looking over the initial post it looks a little cryptic so I'll try to clarify it a little

In Jar A:
Pojo containing common code
Bean 1 - Stateless Bean using the @Name annotation

In Jar B:
Bean 2 extends Pojo - its stateful and named, it contains an instance var (Bean 1) which is injected using the @In annotation but the refrence is null at runtime.

Initially everything was in one jar and Bean 2 was stand alone and it worked fine but now I'd like to seperate out some of the common stuff so I can reuse it in another project.

From what I can see in the documentation what I am trying to do should work fine, both beans should be in the same application scope because they are both living in the same ear file.