Acessing EJB from standard java applications

Hello,
What is the best way to access Enterprise Java Beans from a standard java Application? Any suggestions, documentation, links, ... are welcome.
To illustrate the problem, take the shopping cart example (http://java.sun.com/j2ee/tutorial/1_3-fcs/doc/Session.html). Suppose I now want to create a shopping cart from another swing application started with the 'java' command and not the 'runclient' command. Is this possible? Has it been done before? What is the best thing to do ? Both the J2EE application (like the shopping cart) and the plain java application are already used by customers and cannot be fundamentally changed (the java command cannot be replaced by runclient).
Thank you.

Several options are available.
The easiest is to have the java app call the EJB via RMI/IIOP. You should wrap that process in the "ejb-home factory" and "business delegate" design pattern. I recommend downloading this design pattern book and reading it through.
http://www.theserverside.com/books/EJBDesignPatterns/index.jsp

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