Orion auto-deployment issue?

[Evan Jehu]

 Hi,

 

We have built an entity bean that simply describes a lookup item, we have deployed it (the same classes) a number of times with different ejb-names and all seemed good, however I have just traced the root of an issue to the orion-ejb-jar.xml file, below illustrates whats happening;

 

From the lookup beans deployment descriptor, notice that the same classes are deployed twice with different names;

 

    <entity>
      <ejb-name>salutation</ejb-name>
      <home>com.chryxus.ejb.lookup.LookupHome</home>
      <remote>com.chryxus.ejb.lookup.Lookup</remote>
      <ejb-class>com.chryxus.ejb.lookup.LookupEJB</ejb-class>
      <reentrant>False</reentrant>
      <persistence-type>Container</persistence-type>
      <abstract-schema-name>.Lookup</abstract-schema-name>
      <prim-key-class>java.lang.String</prim-key-class>
      <primkey-field>uoid</primkey-field>

 

      <cmp-field><field-name>uoid</field-name></cmp-field>
      <cmp-field><field-name>value</field-name></cmp-field>
      <cmp-field><field-name>lmd</field-name></cmp-field>
    </entity>

 

    <entity>
      <ejb-name>preferredLanguage</ejb-name>
      <home>com.chryxus.ejb.lookup.LookupHome</home>
      <remote>com.chryxus.ejb.lookup.Lookup</remote>
      <ejb-class>com.chryxus.ejb.lookup.LookupEJB</ejb-class>
      <reentrant>False</reentrant>
      <persistence-type>Container</persistence-type>
      <abstract-schema-name>.Lookup</abstract-schema-name>
      <prim-key-class>java.lang.String</prim-key-class>
      <primkey-field>uoid</primkey-field>

 

      <cmp-field><field-name>uoid</field-name></cmp-field>
      <cmp-field><field-name>value</field-name></cmp-field>
      <cmp-field><field-name>lmd</field-name></cmp-field>
    </entity>

 

from the entity beans deployment descriptor snippet describing the relationship between contact and its preferred language;

 

<cmp-field><field-name>preferredLanguage</field-name></cmp-field>
<ejb-ref>
    <ejb-ref-name>ejb/preferredLanguage</ejb-ref-name>
    <ejb-ref-type>Entity</ejb-ref-type>
    <home>com.chryxus.ejb.lookup.LookupHome</home>
    <remote>com.chryxus.ejb.lookup.Lookup</remote>

</ejb-ref>

cut from the orion-ejb-jar.xml for the contact entity bean, notice that the entity-ref tag refers to salutation, not preferredLanguage as expected;

 

<cmp-field-mapping name="preferredLanguage">
    <entity-ref home="salutation">
        <cmp-field-mapping name="preferredLanguage" persistence-name="preferredLanguage" />
    </entity-ref>
</cmp-field-mapping>

Has anyone else seen this problem?

 

Can anyone tell me if this is a real issue or are we in the wrong for deploying the same classes multiple times (I hope not as it save a lot of duplicated code)?

 

It can be resolved by editing the orion-ejb-jar.xml file but I would prefer not to.

 

Regards

Evan