EJB Beginner

[Gobind Singh]

Question on EJBs:

If someone as deployed an EJB on a server, and I am trying to invoke one of its methods, what do I need to do this?

I have seen some examples of client code that do the following:

1.get InitalContext
2.using InitialContext get a reference to the home
3.Use the narrow() method to cast it down to the type you want.
4.Call the create() method on the home object to get a reference to the Remote inteface
5.Call the required methods on the remote interface.

Question: In step 3 where we cast it to the type that we want. Does this mean that I must have the Home class and the Remote class available to me?
Is this usually the case when a third party provides a EJB already deployed, do they give you the home and remote interfaces so that you can cast down to them?

[Inesh Hettiarachchi]

hi
you must have the stub generated by the deployment tool to cast the object
and providers give only the stub of the bean deployed .
Cheers .