I've been having a play with hibernate entity manager, and annotations in standalone mode,

I then thought i'd make the next step the embedded ejb3 server - but still without a full AS. (take things small step at a time).

I got the ejb3 RC9 and RC9.1 zips and unzipped them into a jboss root folder.

I then included all the jars in the /lib and ejb3.deployer foolders into the eclipse class path

I then tried to but i cant figure out what next. I tried to copy some sample programme from the hibernate persistence chapter 2 thats on the web.

public class NeilsApp2 {

 import org.jboss.ejb3.embedded.EJB3StandaloneBootstrap;
 import javax.naming.InitialContext;
 public class HelloWorld {
 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
// Boot the JBoss Microcontainer with EJB3 settings, automatically
// loads ejb3-interceptors-aop.xml and embedded-jboss-beans.xml
 EJB3StandaloneBootstrap.boot(null);
// Deploy custom stateless beans (datasource, mostly)
 EJB3StandaloneBootstrap
 .deployXmlResource("META-INF/helloworld-beans.xml");
// Deploy all EJBs found on classpath (slow, scans all)
// EJB3StandaloneBootstrap.scanClasspath();
// Deploy all EJBs found on classpath (fast, scans build directory)
// This is a relative location, matching the substring end of one
// of java.class.path locations. Print out the value of
// System.getProperty("java.class.path") to see all paths.
 EJB3StandaloneBootstrap.scanClasspath("helloworld-ejb3/bin");
// Create InitialContext from jndi.properties
 Listing 2.16 ?Hello World? main application code, calling EJBs
 Starting a Java Persistence project 85
 InitialContext initialContext = new InitialContext();
// Look up the stateless MessageHandler EJB
 MessageHandler msgHandler = (MessageHandler) initialContext
 .lookup("MessageHandlerBean/local");
// Call the stateless EJB
 msgHandler.saveMessages();
 msgHandler.showMessages();
// Shut down EJB container
 EJB3StandaloneBootstrap.shutdown();
 }

this as cut and pasted. Eclipse says it cant find resolution for the imports. In particular i cant find any jar file with an org.jboss.ejb3.embedded package in it.

I dont understand what else i'm missing.

I downloaded the jboss5 beta - however if i try and use jboss IDE to create a server it only sees version4. I pointed it at the jboss5 server anyhow in default and all modes. HOwever if i try and create an ejb3 project in eclipse - it says the server doesnt have the required ejb3 jars. so i've gone no further down this route at present.

Any how i wanted the embbedded version outside of an AS first. So what am i supposed to do to get the ejb3 embedded version up and running.

The chapter2 words imply their is an embedded-jboss-beans.xml file but i cant find that in the rc9.1 extract. Do you have to have the full AS as well as the ejb3 files?

Any help?