EJB3 + Tomcat + Glassfish Question

Question

Guys, I'm a new comer of this EJB 3. I just learned how to create a session ejb for the past few weeks.
My first try was to create a local session ejb deployed on the same container (glassfish), and it was run perfectly.
My second try was to create a remote session ejb and deployed on different container, and it could not work.
I already spent about 1 week to find answers for this problem, and I have not found any, and this is frustrating me.
I use these:
Eclipse Europe 3.3.1.1
Glassfish V2
Tomcat 5.5
I created 2 projects for this, the first one is the Enterprise Application Project includes the EJB Project.
The second one is the Dynamic Web Project.
Inside the EJB project, I created an interface and an implementation class.
Inside the Web Project, I added a servlet and put all the calling code inside the servlet.
I tried to running the code within the eclipse, I have already installed the server inside the eclipse.
I followed all the instructions in the EJB Glassfish FAQ and still not working.
This is my ejb interface:
package com.ejb3;
import javax.ejb.Remote;
@Remote
public interface HelloWorldRemote {
     public String sayHello(String name);
}This is my ejb bean class
package com.ejb3;
import javax.ejb.Stateless;
@Stateless
public class HelloWorldRemoteBean implements HelloWorldRemote {
     public String sayHello(String name) {
          String output = "Hello " + name;
          return output;
}This is my servlet code:
private void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
          RequestDispatcher rd = null;
          try {
               Properties props = new 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");
              InitialContext ic = new InitialContext(props);
              HelloWorldRemote helloWorld = (HelloWorldRemote)ic.lookup("HelloWorldRemoteEJB");
               String input = request.getParameter("myname");
               String output = helloWorld.sayHello(input);
               request.setAttribute("result", output);
               rd = getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/result.jsp");
          catch(NamingException e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
          if(rd != null)
               rd.forward(request, response);
     }I had this error:
javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Cannot instantiate class: com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialInitContextFactory [Root exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialInitContextFactory]
     at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:657)
     at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:247)
     at javax.naming.InitialContext.init(InitialContext.java:223)
     at javax.naming.InitialContext.<init>(InitialContext.java:197)
     at com.controller.HelloWorldController.processRequest(HelloWorldController.java:55)
     at com.controller.HelloWorldController.doPost(HelloWorldController.java:40)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:710)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:174)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
     at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
     at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174)
     at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:874)
     at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
     at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
     at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
     at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialInitContextFactory
     at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1363)
     at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1209)
     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)
     at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
     at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:242)
     at com.sun.naming.internal.VersionHelper12.loadClass(VersionHelper12.java:42)
     at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:654)
     ... 21 moreI have spent 1 week to find the answers for this problem, but still have not found any answer.
I also tried to search on google, but I got no answer.
Can anyone help me please?
Thanks.

Answer 1

I have the same problem. Remove the instructions from the EJB3 FAQ until it has you can take a plain tomcat tarball, add the jars and have it work.
Without javaee and appserv-rt jars:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/ejb/EJBObject
With jars in $TOMCAT_HOME/lib
May 5, 2008 2:33:52 PM org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener createMBeans
SEVERE: Exception processing Global JNDI Resources
javax.naming.NamingException: Cannot create resource instance
     at org.apache.naming.factory.ResourceFactory.getObjectInstance(ResourceFactory.java:156)
     at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getObjectInstance(NamingManager.java:304)
May 5, 2008 2:33:52 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: PWC1377: Starting service Catalina
javax.naming.NamingException: Cannot create resource instance
     at org.apache.naming.factory.ResourceFactory.getObjectInstance(ResourceFactory.java:156)
     at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getObjectInstance(NamingManager.java:304)