Home/ Questions/Q 422221
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-12T19:03:36+00:00

I can look up the remote interface of an EJB3 from a Glassfish 2.1

  • 0

I can look up the remote interface of an EJB3 from a Glassfish 2.1 using the global jndi name. However, as I understand, if this were not a LC module but an EJB (Servlet), I would have an ejb-local-ref entry in its ejb-jar.xml (web.xml).

Is there a place to define Local references for an LC module?
Thanks!

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Quoting from the Glassfish EJB FAQ :

    The EJB spec only requires local ejb access from within the same application in the same JVM.

    and

    The EJB Local view is an optimized EJB
    invocation path that uses
    call-by-reference semantics. It is
    only available to web components and
    ejb components that are part of the
    same application as the target EJB. That’s why ejb-local-ref is not even
    part of the schema for
    application-client.xml. To access
    EJBs from an Application Client or
    stand-alone java client, you’ll need
    to use either a Remote 3.0 Business
    interface, a 2.x Home interface, or
    web services.

    The LCM lives outside the application containing the EJB, by definition, so, the answer is no.

    When I discovered them, I saw all kinds of interesting applications for LCM’s, but as I discovered more and more limitations (the fact that they are GF-specific included) that enthusiasm mostly disappeared.

    • 0