Access EJB out of WAR in JBoss 6

[Ad Tan]

I have multiple WAR files, which read the same EJB (contained in a JAR file). These WAR and JAR files are all separately deployed in JBoss AS 6 (ie. not within the same EAR file).

Is there a way where I can access the EJB via CDI (such as @Inject) from my WAR file?

For example, my EJB:

@Stateless
public class SomeBean {
    int count() {...}
}

My consumer in the WAR file:

@Named
@SessionScoped
public class WebBean {
    @Inject SomeBean sb;
    
    @PostConstruct
    protected void postConstruct() {
        System.out.println("Count: " + sb);
    }
}

Anyone know if this is achievable? Or do I have to do it the initialContext.lookup() manner?

Thanks, Ad

[Jaikiran Pai]

The @Inject should work fine.

[Ad Tan]

Jaikiran Pai wrote:The @Inject should work fine.

Well, that's what I thought, but it doesn't work. Not even in GlassFish.

So I'm guessing it doesn't work in JEE6.

To clarify a little, here is how they are deployed:

- deploy folder
  - data.jar
    - META-INF
      - MANIFEST.MF
      - beans.xml
    - demo.data.SomeBean.class
  - web.war
    - META-INF
      - MANIFEST.MF
    - WEB-INF
      - beans.xml
      - web.xml
      - classes
        - demo.web.WebBean.class
    - index.xhtml

[Jaikiran Pai]

So you actually have 2 separate applications. I'm not sure if that's supported. You can instead package the .jar and .war in a .ear and that should allow the @Inject to work. Is that something that you could try?

[Ad Tan]

I was trying if Java EE can "Magically" do all these... I guess it's not there yet... Prob have to do the EAR file

BTW, do you know if I can use global JNDI for these to work?

[Jaikiran Pai]

Ad Tan wrote:

BTW, do you know if I can use global JNDI for these to work?

Yes, manual programatic lookup into java:global should work.