Hello,

I have a case where we have a set of EJBs packaged in a number of different EAR deployments for the sake of modularitiy and scalability.

The EJBs from each EAR, has dependency to other EJBs contained in other EARs and back.

When I try to inject EJBs from external context into an EJB with @EJB(lookup="...") annotation, during the deployment, deployer complains about the referenced EJBs not being available.

Now,

- Is this expected behaviour? Beacuse in my case the dependent EJBs may come up in time and I would kind of hope the deployer to report the resources (other EJBs) as unavailable, yet continue with the deployment.

- Is there a way to tell to perform the deployment a-la late binding?

My immediate workaround to that problem was to lookup EJBs in a @PostConstruct method. Is this the best practice?

Regards,

Hasan Ceylan