How to use JNDI to lookup remote EJB Home?

Question

Hello,
I am writing a servlet to call a remote EJB on another machine.
I use JNDI to lookup remote EJBHome (not) but fail.
Any advice?
Any trick to configure application-client.xml?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Use com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIInitialContextFactory instead
Here an example
// EmployeeClient.java
package mypackage5;
import javax.ejb.*;
import javax.naming.*;
import javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;
import com.evermind.server.ApplicationClientInitialContextFactory;
import com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIInitialContextFactory;
* A simple client for accessing an EJB.
public class EmployeeClient
public static void main(String[] args)
System.out.println("EmployeeClient.main(): client started...");
try
* initialize JNDI context by setting factory, url and credential
* in a hashtable
Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIInitialContextFactory");
//env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.evermind.server.ApplicationClientInitialContextFactory");
env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "ormi://koushikm:23791/application4");
env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, "admin");
env.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, "admin");
* or set these properties in jndi.properties
* or use container defaults if that's where client got launched from
Context context = new InitialContext(env);
* Lookup the EmployeeHome object. The reference is retrieved from the
* application-local context (java:comp/env). The variable is
* specified in the assembly descriptor (META-INF/application-client.xml).
Object homeObject =
context.lookup("HelloEJB");
System.out.println("EmployeeClient.main(): bean found...");
// Narrow the reference to EmployeeHome.
HelloEJBHome home =
     (HelloEJBHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(homeObject,
HelloEJBHome.class);
System.out.println("EmployeeClient.main(): home narrowed...");
// Create remote object and narrow the reference to Employee.
HelloEJB remote =
     (HelloEJB) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(home.create(), HelloEJB.class);
System.out.println("EmployeeClient.main(): remote created...");
String message=remote.helloWorld("SUCCESS");
System.out.println(message);
} catch(NumberFormatException e) {
System.err.println("NumberFormatException: " + e.getMessage());
} catch(RemoteException e) {
System.err.println("RemoteException: " + e.getMessage());
} catch(IOException e) {
System.err.println("IOException: " + e.getMessage());
} catch(NamingException e) {
System.err.println("NamingException: " + e.getMessage());
} catch(CreateException e) {
System.err.println("CreateException: " + e.getMessage());
Hello,
I am writing a servlet to call a remote EJB on another machine.
I use JNDI to lookup remote EJBHome (not) but fail.
Any advice?
Any trick to configure application-client.xml?
Thanks!