I have two application packed in two different ear files and I want from a class in one ear file to access an ejb in the other file. Note that the class is not an ejb. I know that the ejb is deployed correctly because another application I have on Tomcat can access it.

The ejb-jar.xml in the ear file of the ejb looks like this

<session.>
<description.>NPSystemImpl</description.>
<display-name>NPSystemImpl</display-name>
<ejb-name>NPSystem</ejb-name>
<home.>cy.com.netinfo.netpins.interfaces.NPSystemHome</home.>
<remote.>cy.com.netinfo.netpins.interfaces.NPSystem</remote.>
<ejb-class>cy.com.netinfo.netpins.ejb.NPSystemImpl</ejb-class>
<session-type>Stateless</session-type>
<transaction-type>Container</transaction-type>


... and the jboss.xml like this


<ejb-name>NPSystem</ejb-name>
<jndi-name>ejb/NPSystem</jndi-name>
<method-attributes>
</method-attributes>


The code in the class where I lookup the ejb is like:

private static NPSystem remoteConnect() throws Exception{
NPSystem bean;
try{
Object reference = (new InitialContext()).lookup("java:comp/env/NPSystem");
NPSystemHome home = (NPSystemHome)PortableRemoteObject.narrow(reference,NPSystemHome.class);
bean = home.create();
}catch(Exception e){
System.out.println(e.toString());
throw e;
}
return bean;
}//end remoteConnect

My problem is that I don't know how to configure the ejb-jar.xml and jboss.xml in the ear file where my calling class resides so that lookup("java:comp/env/NPSystem") would point to my ejb.

Some code I found on the internet is not accepted by jboss. For example I tried this in ejb-jar.xml

<ejb-jar>
<enterprise-beans>

NPSystem
<ejb-ref>

<ejb-ref-name></ejb-ref-name>
<ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type>
<home.>cy.com.netinfo.netpins.interfaces.NPSystemHome</home.>
<remote.>cy.com.netinfo.netpins.interfaces.NPSystem</remote.>
</ejb-ref>

<enterprise-beans>
<ejb-jar>

The above is not accepted because the attributes <ejb-name>,<ejb-class> etc must be declared...

I hope you have an idea of how to solve this.