we're a little behind on jboss, 2.4.1.
-----Original Message----- From: Sam De Backer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 4:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [JBoss-user] general deployment question Concerning the <ejb-link> The EJB2.0 spec clearly states (20.3.2) that "...the target enterprise bean can be in any ejb-jar file in the same J2EE application as the referencing application component." Exactly the same is in J2EE 1.3 spec (J2EE.5.3.2) According to me this means, in the same EAR! This is exactly what I wanted for my application, but it doesn't seems to work in JBoss 3.0.0 (beta2) (see my posting on Friday)!!! Eric just mentioned he got it to work in JBoss (which version please?) and I'm very curious about it! So maybe you can give me a hint on how I can get it to work in JBoss? Feel sorry for you 'bout Borland ;-) Sam. From: "Eric Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 11:46:39 -0500 Subject: [JBoss-user] general deployment question This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01C1C829.3DCF61A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We have built a large number of session and bmp entity beans as part of our technology framework. For historical reasons we organized each entity bean (along with home and remote interfaces and primary key class) into a jar. Same with the session beans. In the deployment descriptors, we used the ejb-link tag to identify ejb references, even though the references were not in the same jar. Again, this was because the documentation at the time on all this stuff was not very good and we just had examples to go off of. Somehow, we get away with this in jboss, even though it's not correct to use ejb-link for references outside of a jar. Note, all the jar files, and there are about 30 now, are packaged into an ear. We then have a jboss.xml per jar which basically defines any jdbc references we may have as well as declares the jndi names for each of the beans in the ejb-jar.xml. We have a client who insists on using borland's app server (let's not get into why here...) and borland is choking, and i think rightly so, because the ejb-link references are to beans outside of the jar. My question is, why was i able to get away with this in jboss. In a related area, we have a fair number of helper classes that all these beans use (base classes for our beans, data structures to hold the data passed back to the client apps, etc.). Right now, we add jar files holding these classes, as well as third party jars, to the jboss classpath. Is this the right thing to do, or is the right thing to stuff these helper classes into each jar (or the ear file)... I apologize if this question seems basic, but we've spent more time just trying to make things work and less trying to understand every single aspect of this. Things are calming down a bit right now and I'd like to reexamine our approach here. Most of the documentation out there deals with relatively simple applications, or gets bogged down with discussions of war files, etc. (we're not a web app, at least not yet). Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. As I've said, we've managed to get all this to work, though I think we have some configuration issues yet to deal with. Thanks Eric Kaplan Armanta, Inc. 55 Madison Ave. Morristown, NJ 07960 Phone: (973) 326-9600 _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user
