Ejbs in workshop

Question

Hi, I'm developing some EJBs using workshop/ejbgen. I have an MDB working and now want to refer another local-ejb within it. Basically I have one application (top-level folder) in workshop with two EJB projects under it. One is the MDB and the other is a stateful session bean that I want to be invoked by the MDB. A couple of questions:
1) I attempted to use the ejbgen:ejb-local-ref tag as follows:
"* @ejbgen:ejb-local-ref link="anXMLParserUtil""
When I try to build the project I get an error message:
anMDB.java:21: [ejb-local-ref name = ejb/anXMLParserUtil link=anXMLParserUtil] must have either 'link' or all of 'name', 'type', 'home', 'remote|local' attributes specified.
However, when I look at the property editor and the ejbgen tags all I have set is link... so where is it getting this name attribute from???
2) More of a general workshop question really... if my two separate ejb projects both ahve the same package structure should they be able to see each others classes without having to import anything?
Thanks a lot for the help!!!

Answer 1

OK - so I decided to attempt a different approach while awaiting a response here. Originally, I had the MDB and the session EJB in two separate projects - therefore two separate .jar files being generated by workshop. I have since moved them both into the same project and was able to build and deploy my .ear to the server. However, now when I publish a message to the topic using a separate test program, the MDB throws an exception when executing the lookup:
public void ejbCreate()
try {
javax.naming.Context ic = new InitialContext();
xmlParser = (MyParserBeanLocalHome)ic.lookup("java:/comp/env/ejb/MyParserBean");
The error I get is:
javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: While trying to lookup /comp/env/ejb/MyParserBean in /app/ejb/MyJarFileContainingBothMDBandEJB.jar#SomeName.; remaining name /comp/env/ejb/MyParserBean
I googled and found a lot of instances of this problem but none of them had answers...
I'd greatly appreciate any feedback anyone can give me.
Thanks.