Introspecting ejb interfaces

[puneet]

Is it possible to introspect the home interface returned by jndi lookup to call the "create" method and then introspect the remote interface returned by create to invoke a method of remote interface.

In a way i want to get rid of the castings of objects returned by jndi lookup and create method into home and remote interfaces respectively.

[andreas]

It's not allowed to create instances of ejb in any way the container stack is obviated.

But I don't see any reason, why a bean interface method, shouldn't invoked with reflection on a object returned by a legal lookup.

I. e. I use this method to find all my beans by primary key:

public static Object findByPrimaryKey(String entity, String id) throws RuntimeException {
try {
Context initial = getContext();
Object home = initial.lookup("java:comp/env/" + entity);
Class c = home.getClass();

Class[] argTypes = {String.class};

Object[] arguments = {id};
Method method = c.getMethod("findByPrimaryKey", argTypes);

return method.invoke(home, arguments);

} catch (Exception fex) {
fex.printStackTrace();
throw new RuntimeException(fex.getMessage());
}
}