Visibility between EJB Containers - ClassNotFoundException

[dbr]

I have several EJBs deployed in JBoss 2.2.2. I need one of them to be able to connect to the others at runtime. I won't know the names of the beans to lookup until runtime so putting external references in my ejb-jar.xml is not an option.

When I perform the lookup's I get ClassNotFoundExceptions. AFAIK, JBoss keeps each EJB in its own container with its own classloader. Is there a way that I can make classes visible between containers?

Dan

[js_thind]

Unless u r using jboss.xml file to assign JNDI names to your EJB , JBoss deploys EJBs using the JNDI specified by <ejb-name></ejb-name> tag.
You can use these names to describe external ejb-references.

If your EJB's xml descriptor has something like this :
<ejb-name>ProductColorsEJB</ejb-name>
ProductColorsHome
ProductColors
<ejb-class>ProductColorsEJB</ejb-class>

then u can refer to this EJB from another EJB using:
<ejb-ref>
<ejb-ref-name>ejb/ProductColorsEJB</ejb-ref-name>
<ejb-ref-type>Entity</ejb-ref-type>
ProductColorsHome
ProductColors
<ejb-link>ProductColorsEJB</ejb-link>
</ejb-ref>