can I call a ejb function from JMX?

[cn123h]

I'm testing my session bean functions. I can write a servlet, call the functions, deploy it and.... Or I can use the ejb test project, like apache cactus.
But, can I just invoke these function with JMX? I use JBoss, there is a web GUI for JMX, my functions are all about Database, no output, is there any easy way just to run it without Servlet, UnitTest... ?

[cn123h]

btw, i got a problem by using Cactus+JBoss 5.1

https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBAS-7212?focusedCommentId=12552988#action_12552988

[genman]

You can, since you can call an EJB remotely, even.

Here's the general pattern, where RemoteInterface is the interface exported from your EJB.

RemoteInterface ejb = (RemoteInterface)(new javax.naming.InitialContext().lookup("deployment/NameOfEJB/remote"));
ejb.myFunction();