How does Jboss 7 AS registers JNDI

[frankvanorshoven]

I've a simple session bean which implements a remote interface.

    @Remote(LTextsEjbRemote.class)

    @Stateless(mappedName = "LTextsEjb")

    public class LTextsEjbBean implements LTextsEjbRemote {

    ...

    }

Above bean and it's interface is packaged in a jar. This jar is then deployed in JBoss 7 correctly. I can access the bean remotely from a client application. On the console I can see how JBoss registers the bean in the JNDI.

     JNDI bindings for session bean named LTextsEjbBean in deployment unit deployment "ecospeedtext-1.0.jar" are as follows:

    java:global/ecospeedtext-1.0/LTextsEjbBean!com.ecospeed.text.ejb.LTextsEjbRemote

    java:app/ecospeedtext-1.0/LTextsEjbBean!com.ecospeed.text.ejb.LTextsEjbRemote

    java:module/LTextsEjbBean!com.ecospeed.text.ejb.LTextsEjbRemote

    java:jboss/exported/ecospeedtext-1.0/LTextsEjbBean!com.ecospeed.text.ejb.LTextsEjbRemote

    java:global/ecospeedtext-1.0/LTextsEjbBean

    java:app/ecospeedtext-1.0/LTextsEjbBean

    java:module/LTextsEjbBean

     JNDI bindings for session bean named LTextsEjb in deployment unit deployment "ecospeedtext-1.0.jar" are as follows:

    java:global/ecospeedtext-1.0/LTextsEjb!com.ecospeed.text.ejb.LTextsEjbRemote

    java:app/ecospeedtext-1.0/LTextsEjb!com.ecospeed.text.ejb.LTextsEjbRemote

    java:module/LTextsEjb!com.ecospeed.text.ejb.LTextsEjbRemote

    java:jboss/exported/ecospeedtext-1.0/LTextsEjb!com.ecospeed.text.ejb.LTextsEjbRemote

    java:global/ecospeedtext-1.0/LTextsEjb

    java:app/ecospeedtext-1.0/LTextsEjb

    java:module/LTextsEjb

The jar which contains the session bean will need to access other jars, so I need to package all the jars in an EAR file.

When I deploy this ear file, I don't see JBoss registering the session bean in the JNDI anymore. Also, the remote client is not working anymore. It throws an exception:

javax.naming.NameNotFoundException

My question :  why is JBoss not registering the beans anymore ... or better ... what do I have to do so that JBoss sees the beans and registres them in JNDI ?

Many thanks,  Frank

[sfcoy]

Is the jar containing your EJB specified as an ejb module in your application.xml file?

[frankvanorshoven]

No, I've read that as of EJB3 there is no need for application.xml anymore.