EJB in Glassfish V2 from a Servlet in SJSWS

Question

HI, I'm trying to use a EJB deployed in Glassfish from a servlet in the web server. I followed the steps in EJB_Faq of Glassfish site and they work
perfectly in Tomcat, but when I try it on Sun Web Server 7.0u1 it fails. On the web server log there is an exception when trying to create InitialContext, but I think
it is because of a warning that the server shows before the error. It doesn't load the javaee.jar file because is "Offending a class", the Servlet class.
Anyone has tried this, call an EJB in Glassfish from Sun Web Server? It works in Tomcat but the Web Server doesn't load the javaee.jar file and I think this is the reason that the call fails.

Answer 1

This is the code for the EJB:
package jpm.business;
import java.util.List;
import javax.ejb.Stateless;
@Stateless(mappedName="ejb/soloEJB")
public class JavaPlatformManagerBean implements jpm.business.JavaPlatformManagerRemote, jpm.business.JavaPlatformManagerLocal {
public String getNombre(){
return "Minchez";
public String toString(){
return "Minchez ";
And this is the part of the servlet that looks for the EJB:
try{
java.util.Properties props = new java.util.Properties();
props.setProperty("java.naming.factory.initial",
"com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialInitContextFactory");
props.setProperty("java.naming.factory.url.pkgs",
"com.sun.enterprise.naming");
props.setProperty("java.naming.factory.state",
"com.sun.corba.ee.impl.presentation.rmi.JNDIStateFactoryImpl");
props.setProperty("org.omg.CORBA.ORBInitialHost", "localhost");
props.setProperty("org.omg.CORBA.ORBInitialPort", "3700");
out.print("1");
InitialContext ic = new InitialContext(props);
out.print("2");
JavaPlatformManagerRemote jpmr = (JavaPlatformManagerRemote)ic.lookup("ejb/soloEJB");
out.print("-" + jpmr.getNombre());
out.print("3");
} catch(Exception e){ out.println(e.toString()); }
(I just deleted some comments, but if there is an error, just complete the declarations)
The EJB's .jar is deployed on Glassfish and the Servlet's .war is deployed on SJSWS or Tomcat. As the FAQs says on Glassfish forum, you have to add some jars to the web server classpath. Copy this jars to a folder named shared/lib on tomcat installation: javaee.jar, appserv-rt.jar, appserv-ext.jar, appserv-deployment-client.jar and jmxremote_optional.jar the last one I don't know if its necessary but I copied also, they are on Glassfish lib directory.
If you try in tomcat it works fine, the servlet receives the String form the EJB method. But when you try it in SJSWS the javaee.jar file its not loaded, fails on "validateJar(....)" and I think this is the reason the servlet doesn't find de EJB.
I'm using:
Glassfish V2
SJS Web Server 7.0u1
Tomcat 5.5.17