RAD and ejb3 project

[ben oliver]

I am implementing a ejb3 stateless session bean using RAD IDE. I create a ejb project. There are two classes I need to create

a)

@Local
public interface MyService {
...
}

b)

@Stateless(mappedName="ejb/MyService")
public class MyServiceImpl implements MyService {

...
}

Question --- In RAD, I create a new EJB project "myservice". Should I put both "MyService.java" and "MyServiceImpl.java" in this "myservice" project ?

or should I only put "MyServiceImpl.java" in "myservice" ejb project and create a separate java project to put "MyService.java" ?

Does both work and which is better way to do it ?

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Ben,
I would put them both in the same (ejb) project. They go together and are unlikely to be used independently.

[ben oliver]

Thanks Jeanne. I tried separating them into two projects and it worked as long as that, in the ejb project, I set a project reference to that "interface" project. But I guess this is not a good practice, usually we should put them in ejbModule, right ?

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Ben,
It is traditional, but not required, to put them in the same project. Because they get used together. Is there a reason to separate them?