EJB from Struts.

Question

Hello All,
I am writing an action class in struts that needs to call a method from stateless session bean. I allready wrote and tested my stateless session bean from Universal Test Client. It's working fine.
Can anyone please let me know what exectly would be steps for calling that method from Action class. i know steps i.e
1.Taking Initial context
2. lookup the bean using JNDI
3. call method
Do i need to put some entry in my web.xml file for EJB.
Please help me out.
but i need more specific solution. Sample code will be highly appreciated. JNDI name for my bean is ejb/ejbs/com/ibm/TestHome.
Thanks in advance.
pn24256
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pn24256

Answer 1

Yes you are right. You don't need to put any thing in your web.xml. You just need to know your EJB JNDI name.
1. Get the initial context
2. Get the EJB Home class
3. Get the local/ remote inetrface from ur home class
4. And call you EJB method.
That's all you need to do.
Pls find below sample code.
1. MappingServiceLocalHome mappingServiceHome = (MappingServiceLocalHome) ServiceLocator.lookupLocalHome("MappingServiceLocalHome", MappingServiceLocalHome.class);
2. MappingServiceLocal service = mappingServiceHome.create();
3. latLngvo = service.getGeocodedAddress(address, zipCode, city, stateCode, country, countyName);
The above code is sample, and JNDI look up was done in another class. Essentially first step is to get ur EJB home class through JNDI steps. and then get your local/remote interface from ur home class.
and final step is to call your method inside your stateless session bean.