2 Replies Latest reply on May 13, 2011 9:56 AM by anitaalbert

    Bind external ejbs to jndi

    anitaalbert
    anitaalbert May 12, 2011 5:00 PM

        We have two jboss servers (say A and B) running. Is it possible to have ejbs deployed on server A to bind to the naming service on server B? The goal is that clients on server A should not have to do a remote look up to call interfaces on this ejb.  I initially tried using ExternalContext and defining an MBean but realized I have to change the way I do the look up to actually call any interface on the ejb. Is there anyway I can specify either -

      1. On server A - to configure ejbs to also bind to the naming service on B while getting deployed.

         or

      2. On server B - to configure jndi so that the jndi name indirectly points to jnp://serverB:1099/jndi name

       

      Any pointers to any documentation will be really appreciated. Thanks.

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          wdfink
          wdfink May 13, 2011 2:53 AM (in response to anitaalbert)

          One possible solution is that you cluster the two nodes and deploy one (different) application to each.

          In this case the same JNDI context is available on both instances.

           

          But why you have such approach, if you call always an EJB remote it will have network latency and traffic.

          If you deploy the applications for both the JBoss cluster do the loadbalancing and failover for you

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          • 2. Bind external ejbs to jndi
            anitaalbert
            anitaalbert May 13, 2011 9:56 AM (in response to wdfink)

            I think my original post has quite a few mistakes. - I need clients on server B to call interfaces on server A without doing a remote lookup. And the two options I was looking at were -

             

            1. On server A - to configure ejbs to also bind to the naming service on B while getting deployed.

               or

            2. On server B - to configure jndi so that the jndi name indirectly points to jnp://serverA:1099/jndi name

             

            Well, the reason we need this approach is that server B is going to be within a firewall and server A is going to be outside of it. The main application will be deployed on server B and only certain specific interfaces that cannot function within the firewall will be deployed on server A. So when the server processing happens on server B and it tries to invoke those specific interfaces, I need it to get processed by A instead of B. But since the application has been originally designed for a single server - all look ups are local and I would like to leave it that way.  I don't think clustering would be an option because we do not want server A to do any of the processing like DB access - the only processing it should do would be those specific functions which cannot happen behind a firewall.

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