Java EE 5:persistence, web and ejb alltogether

Hi to everybody,
I've created an ear with the following structure:

I'm using JBoss 4.2.0.

The file 'persistence.jar' contains a persistence unit and, if deployed as standalone, it works.
The file 'ejb.jar' contains a stateless session bean that accesses to the persistence unit.

If I deploy my ear, JBoss complains when trying to deploy the session bean, dumping that it cannot resolve a dependency from the persistence unit.
It seems like the deployer can't see the 'persistence.jar' element: in fact, in the logs there is no trace about the deployment of my persistence unit.

Thanks a lot in advances!

Hi

Can you give the Exception log or Exception details ?

Thanks for the response!

Sorry, I'm not at my home station.
But consider that I do not receive a stack trace error: simply, JBoss informs me that the ejb deployment is incomplete because it cannot find the persistence unit referenced.

Thanks!

Hi guys,

I partially solved my problem: I had not specified my persistence.jar file as an ejb module in application.xml.

Now, the deployment works correctly, but I can't find the correct name for the session bean: I mean, my servlet can't find the remote interface (NamingNotFoundException).

I have never really understood the jndi naming for external resources: when I have an ejb, I have to:
1. Set an ejb-ref in web.xml
2. Add an application-server specific xml file that maps the jndi name with the name of the ejb

Is it correct?
What should I do if my application server is JBoss?

Thanks a lot in advances...

Hi guys,

Today, for the first time, my ejb+persistence+servlet...Worked!

However, I don't yet understand the meaning for ejb-ref in web.xml. In my application, I simply didn't put anything in web.xml and it worked.

Can anybody explain me the meaning for ejb-ref for web.xml?

Thanks in advances

ejb-ref is useful if you need to reference an EJB from your servlet.

Hi,
thanks for your response.

Ok, I thought it, too, but today my servlet has been able to access to my stateless session bean without using any ejb-ref.

Consider that I'm using java enterprise edition 5 and I'm using the @Remote and @Stateless annotations...

Thanks a lot!

I guess that's because you use the global JNDI to lookup your EJB. Thus, you don't need to use ejb-ref at all.

Hi,
thanks for the response.
Well, I think it is, but when I tried to set an ejb-ref, the application server complained because it expected at least an 'home' element.
Aren't annotation enough for the application server?
Consider that my web.xml is 2.5 version.

Thanks in advances!