Error while running EJB from java client on JBOSS

Question

Hi
As i am new to EJB i have created a helloworld application in ejb which is working fine when i try to call it from servlet but when i try to invoke the same ejb from java client (i.e from diff jvm) on jboss i got the following error:
javax.naming.CommunicationException: Could not obtain connection to any of these urls: localhost:1099 and discovery failed with error: javax.naming.CommunicationException: Receive timed out [Root exception is java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Receive timed out] [Root exception is javax.naming.CommunicationException: Failed to connect to server localhost:1099 [Root exception is javax.naming.ServiceUnavailableException: Failed to connect to server localhost:1099 [Root exception is java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused]]]
     at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.checkRef(NamingContext.java:1399)
     at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:579)
     at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:572)
     at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:351)
     at com.gl.TestClient.main(TestClient.java:39)
Caused by: javax.naming.CommunicationException: Failed to connect to server localhost:1099 [Root exception is javax.naming.ServiceUnavailableException: Failed to connect to server localhost:1099 [Root exception is java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused]]
     at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.getServer(NamingContext.java:254)
     at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.checkRef(NamingContext.java:1370)
     ... 4 more
Caused by: javax.naming.ServiceUnavailableException: Failed to connect to server localhost:1099 [Root exception is java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused]
     at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.getServer(NamingContext.java:228)
     ... 5 more
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333)
     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195)
     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182)
     at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
     at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:519)
     at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:469)
     at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:366)
     at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:266)
     at org.jnp.interfaces.TimedSocketFactory.createSocket(TimedSocketFactory.java:69)
     at org.jnp.interfaces.TimedSocketFactory.createSocket(TimedSocketFactory.java:62)
     at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.getServer(NamingContext.java:224)
     ... 5 more
Following is my code:
Home Interface:
package com.gl;
import javax.ejb.CreateException;
public interface testHome extends EJBHome {
     String JNDI_NAME = "testBean";
     public     test create()
     throws java.rmi.RemoteException,CreateException;
Remote Interface:
package com.gl;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;
import javax.ejb.EJBObject;
public interface test extends EJBObject {
     public String welcomeMessage() throws RemoteException;
Bean:
package com.gl;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;
import javax.ejb.EJBException;
import javax.ejb.SessionBean;
import javax.ejb.SessionContext;
public class testbean implements SessionBean {
     public void ejbActivate() throws EJBException, RemoteException {
          // TODO Auto-generated method stub
     public void ejbPassivate() throws EJBException, RemoteException {
          // TODO Auto-generated method stub
     public void ejbRemove() throws EJBException, RemoteException {
          // TODO Auto-generated method stub
     public void setSessionContext(SessionContext arg0) throws EJBException,
               RemoteException {
          // TODO Auto-generated method stub
     public void ejbCreate(){}
     public String welcomeMessage(){
          return "Welcome to the World of EJB";
ejb-jar.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE ejb-jar PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/ejb-jar_2_0.dtd">
<ejb-jar>
<enterprise-beans>
<session>
<ejb-name>testBean</ejb-name>
<home>com.gl.testHome</home>
<remote>com.gl.test</remote>
<ejb-class>com.gl.testbean</ejb-class>
<session-type>Stateless</session-type>
<transaction-type>Container</transaction-type>
</session>
</enterprise-beans>
</ejb-jar>
jboss.xml:
<?xml version='1.0' ?>
<!DOCTYPE jboss PUBLIC "-//JBoss//DTD JBOSS 3.2//EN" "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss_3_2.dtd">
<jboss>
<enterprise-beans>
<entity>
<ejb-name>testBean</ejb-name>
<jndi-name>testBean</jndi-name>
</entity>
</enterprise-beans>
</jboss>
Client code:
package com.gl;
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject;
public class TestClient {
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{
               try{
               /*     Properties props=new Properties();
                    props.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory");
                    props.put(Context.URL_PKG_PREFIXES, "org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces");
                    props.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "jnp://localhost:1099");
               Properties props = new Properties();
props.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
"org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory");
props.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "localhost:1099");
                    System.out.println("Properties ok");
                    //env.setProperty(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,"org.jboss.naming.HttpNamingContextFactory");
                    //env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL,"http://localhost:8080");
                    //env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, "");
                    //env.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, "");
                    Context ctx=new InitialContext(props);
                    System.out.println("context ok");
                    //testHome home = (testHome)ctx.lookup("testBean");
                    Object obj = ctx.lookup ("testBean");
                    System.out.println("ojb = " + obj);
                    testHome ejbHome = (testHome)PortableRemoteObject.narrow(obj,testHome.class);
               test ejbObject = ejbHome.create();
               String message = ejbObject.welcomeMessage();
                    System.out.println("home ok");
                    System.out.println("remote ok");
                    System.out.println(message);
                    catch(Exception e){e.printStackTrace();}
I am able to successfully deployed my ejb on JBOSS but i m getting above error when i am trying to invoke ejb from java client.
kindly suggest me something to solve this issue.
Regards
Gagan
Edited by: Gagan2914 on Aug 26, 2008 3:28 AM

Answer 1

Is it a remote lookup? Then maybe this will help:
[http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/JBoss42FAQ]
- Roy