Accessing the local interface of an EJB

Question

Hello.
I am using Jdeveloper 11G and it's integrated application server. Using the Jdeveloper wizards, i created a simple stateless session EJB which has both a local and a remote interface (code listed below). I then used the "Create test client" option to create a simple test client.
The way these classes and interfaces are set up by the wizards, i am using the remote interface. However, i would like to lookup the local interface and use that instead. But i just can't figure out how to lookup the local interface of the EJB. I have tried pretty much every variation i can think of but still no success. Is there anyone out there who can give me a hand? Is there a way to see the lookup name in the integrated WLS server?
My remote interface looks like this:
@Remote
public interface SessionEJB {
and the remote one:
@Local
public interface SessionEJBLocal {
And my EJB class:
@Stateless(name = "SessionEJB", mappedName = "NewTestApplication-SessionEJB")
public class SessionEJBBean implements SessionEJBLocal, SessionEJB {
My test client does this lookup that works fine:
public class SessionEJBClient1 {
public static void main(String [] args) {
try {
final Context context = getInitialContext();
SessionEJB sessionEJB = (SessionEJB)context.lookup("NewTestApplication-SessionEJB#model.SessionEJB");
}

Answer 1

Hi,
Your lookup in your client would look something like
SessionEJBLocal sessionEJB = (SessionEJBLocal)context.lookup("NewTestApplication-SessionEJB#SessionEJBLocal ");
The part before the # in the lookup is your mapped name from your session facade, and after the # you have your package, like com.oracle. and ending it with your local interface name.
Just remember that if your client is not actually running inside the application server container (which with the generated test client it wouldn't be, its a java standalone app with a main method), you will not be able to use the local interface, and you would have to look up remote interface. This can be done in exactly the same way as the above line of code, just replacing the local interface parts with the remote interface's. Hope this helps.
Drikus
Edited by: Drikus Britz on Jun 3, 2009 8:46 PM
Edited by: Drikus Britz on Jun 3, 2009 8:50 PM