EJBs and web services in Application server ??

Question

Hi all,
I just wanted to ask for a help in a scenario that i am facing:
I have a Application that relies on EJBs for Business Logic
I basically use the Jboss A/s[4.2.2 GA] server for the same and now there is a need to Expose these bean methods through a web service
so that our web team can make use of the same Business logic.
Currently i have implemented a End point interface that my Bean class implements so that i can expose
my bean methods to the web team
Req:
I want to create a separate Enterprise Bean which resides in the same JVM as my Application bean , and acts as a wrapper for my application bean
Also,
Further elaboration of the problem is as follows:
THE existing Application beans Remote interface has all the business methods that i want to expose.
The new bean should act as a delegate which intercepts the web clients call extracts the request from the call
and passes it to the application bean methods.
So this basically requires that new bean should be able to communicate with my application bean +(Which is BTW a stateless session bean)+
and pass on clients requests to the same.
Kindly provide suggestion for the same or any ideas as soon as possible
thanks again
veneet
Edited by: RainaV on 14 May, 2009 6:49 PM
Edited by: RainaV on 14 May, 2009 6:57 PM

Answer 1

Let me make it more clear for everyone
Let [A] be my application bean which has all the business Logic.
is a new wrapper bean that needs to communicate to bean [A] for accessing the Business Logic
The requirement for creating Bean[B] is two folds
1) it will provide a wrapper class for breaking down the web client requests,
which are in  XML format;
into simpler data structure which can be passed as parameters to bean [A}.
2)This bean [B] will send the response back to the web client who is in need of the service
Now as pointed out by one of the guys why not create a Local interface that is not possible at this point as Most of the session bean methods have been declared to throw
Remote Exceptions and i am faced with the issue that this Design mistake is irreversible due to the Size of the Code and other factors
Now i have been looking and some Alternatives for the same .
The problem is i have not been able to find any way to do the same and need suggestions and ideas if anyone has some on this issue
i hope this clears the matter
thanks again
veneet