CMR/EJB-QL between entities in two jars

[guhi]

Hello!

As the subject states I would like to be able to use CMR and/or EJB-QL to link together entities deployed in different jar-files/deployment-descriptors (unidirectional
relations, of course).

It seems that the SUN-Spec forbids this, but I think it could be useful to dynamically extend Applications...
So: Is this kind of application possible with jboss?
Is it supported today, in the future?

Thanks,

-Gunnar

[dsundstrom]

I really don't see supporting this anytime soon. There is an easy work around (merge the jars), and there are many more important features to implement.

[guhi]

Thanks for your answer, I see that's not that important. And I think I wouldn't use it anyway since it's non-standard.
But there are situations when you can't merge the jars because you have a framework which can be extended by third-party modules/jars and you are in a 24/7 environment. Using different jars you can just add/delete/upgrade single modules of the system.

I will now use explicit foreign keys and custom finders to solve this problem. This should work just fine and the features of CMR aren't so important in my case.

Thanks,

-Gunnar