jndi bug/unexpected behavior

[izhidov]

If I bind an object into JNDI tree from within an EJB(MDB) and then try retrieve it from another bean or redeployed original bean, I will get an empty copy of the original object bound into the tree. That's a little strange to me. Does JBoss do in and out serialization thus losing the contents of the object unless it's serializable too?

[davidjencks]

Yes, except for in-vm access in recent versions of jboss 3/3.1

[sebaseba]

You could also try turning the object you are binding to JNDI into a remote object (as you would for standard RMI pass-by-reference).

Not sure whether you need to extend java.rmi.UnicastRemoteObject (i.e. RMI) or java.rmi.PortableRemoteObject (i.e. RMI-IIOP). In JBoss 2.4.4, I have had problems with the latter - I think RMI-IIOP support in 2.4.4 was not quite ready.

Hope this helps
/Sebastian