NameNotFoundException for EJB Handle of a Stateful Bean

[femski1]

Hi folks !

Our design is like this:

A server keeps a cache of javax.ejb.Handle objects of Stateful Session EJBs.

Clients get the handle by a key using something like:

javax.ejb.Handle handle - SessionEngineEJB.getHandle(key).

UserProxyEJB ejbProxy = (UserProxyEJB) PortableRemoteObject(handle.getEJBObject(), UserProxyEJB.class);

This used to work out of box in JBoss 4.0.1.

But is not always working in JBoss 4.3.0.GA (we get sporadic exceptions)

I checked thet Handle at least inside server instance is valid.

Problem is that we can not seem to be able to use it in the client.

Exact error is:

NameNotFoundException: Name UserproxyEJB is not bound in this context

at org.jboss.proxy.ejb.handle.StatefulHandleImpl.getEJBObject(StatefulHandleImpl.java:184)

First I had to add following two lines in server/conf/jndi.properties file for it to work at all:

java.naming.factory.initial=org.jboss.naming.NamingContextFactory

java.naming.provider.url=jnp://host:port

My question is:

What need to be done for seralization of EJB handles to be full-proof for Stateful Session beans ?

thanks,

-Sanjay