What is the naming convention of JNDI for EJB 2.1 based component in Glassfish

[Rajani Gummadi]

Hi All,

I'm using GlassFish V3.0 and working on a very simple stateless session bean example and I my ejb-jar.xml is as follows

                         <ejb-name>HelloWorld</ejb-name>
			<home>org.ejb.session.interfaces.HelloWorldHome</home>
			<remote>org.ejb.session.interfaces.HelloWorldObject</remote>
			<local-home>org.ejb.session.interfaces.HelloWorldLocalHome</local-home>
			<local>org.ejb.session.interfaces.HelloWorldLocalObject</local>
			<ejb-class>org.ejb.session.HelloWorld</ejb-class>
			<session-type>Stateless</session-type>
			<transaction-type>Container</transaction-type>

In my stand alone client, I tried to lookup for the home as below

Context c = new InitialContext();
Object o = c.lookup("HelloWorld");

I did not setup properties for JNDI server and port as this link, does say "its not required".

I have the interfaces of the package org.ejb.session.interfaces, jar'ed and added to my client class path and also have gf-client.jar in the classpath, again as mentioned in the above link.

My above setup did not work, and returned me javax.naming.NamingException (caused by Caused by: javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: HelloWorld not found).

Then I did asadmin list-jndi-entries from my glassfish installation and found that the JNDI name is actually org.ejb.session.interfaces.HelloWorldHome. So I changed my lookup to use the above reference and it worked.

My question here is, I thought ejb-name in deployment descriptor would be used in JNDI lookup. Did I miss any other file? I knew that, I did not use any container specific configuration file, but I thought GlassFish provides one by default. So is the default setting of GlassFish is to use the entire home object including the package.

Thanks
Rajani

[Rajani Gummadi]

Any advice on this.