ejb-ref found in both ejb-jar.dtd and jboss_3_0.dtd

[ionel]

Hi,

I'm facing a problem with JBoss to bind local jndi name to CMP using a session facade bean (see previous post)

I'm studying the differents DTD's to see if I make no mistake and I noticed that the tags <ejb-ref> and <ejb-ref-name> are present in both ejb-jar.dtd and jboss_3_0.dtd.

Do I need to use the both reference ?
Is it a source of problem ?
If not and for personnal knowledge only, why is it located in the two files ?

thanks,
ionel

[blaine]

They are cross-references. ejb-jar.xml defines the
requirement of what code occurrences of the ejb-ref-name
must resolve to (interfaces and bean type). jboss.xml
maps that entry to a JNDI name for final resolution.
(If you use ejb-link in ejb-jar.xml, then the stuff in
jboss.xml is unnecessary and JNDI is not used).

See the JNDI section of the Jboss guide.

[ionel]

i've added :

...
<ejb-local-ref>
<ejb-ref-name>ejbcal/PersonneRef</ejb-ref-name>
<jndi-name>ejbcal/LocalPersonne</jndi-name>
</ejb-local-ref>


(ejbcal/LocalPersonne is the <local-jndi-name> of my CMP bean)

in the JBoss.xml file and JBoss complained that no <ejb-link> tag was present in the ejb-jar.xml.

I added it and it works fine now (i can bind to java:/comp/env/ejbcal/PersonneRef from my facade bean to hit the local CMP bean).


thanks for your help,
it puts me on the right lane

ionel