Local Session Bean calling another local Session Bean in EJB 3.0

Question

Hi,
In EJB 3.0, I am trying to do JNDI lookup of a local sesion bean from another session bean's helper class.
I am not using @EJB injection mechanism here, as call to the local session bean is made in a helper class. Helper classes do not support resource injection.
Following are the EJB class definitions used in my project. Call to "EJB3Local" made from "EJB1" fails as the "EJB2" helper class is calling "EJB1Local"
@Stateless
@EJBs({@EJB(name="EJB2Local", beanInterface=EJB2Local.class),
@EJB(name="EJB3Local", beanInterface=EJB3Local.class)})
public class EJB1 implements EJB1Remote, EJB1Local{
public void findEJB3Local(){
//1. JNDI lookup for EJB3Local ----
//2. EJB3Local.someFunction()
@Stateless
@EJB(name="EJB1Local", beanInterface=EJB1Local.class)
public class EJB2 implements EJB2Remote, EJB2Local{
public void findEJB1Local(){
//1. JNDI lookup EJB1Local
// 2. Call EJB1Local.findEJB1Local method
@Stateless
public class EJB3 implements EJB3Remote, EJB3Local{
public void someFunction(){}
A remote call to EJB2.findEJB1Local() will invoke EJb1Local.findEJB3Local method and the call fails with "java:comp/env/EJB3Local" not found in EJB1Local.
Has anybody encountered an issue like this issue with local interface calling another local interface?
Thanks,
Mohan

Answer 1

To refer a Ejb from another Ejb include <ejb-ref> element
in ejb-jar.xml
<session>
<ejb-name>SessionBeanA</ejb-name>
<ejb-ref>
<ejb-ref-name>SessionBeanB</ejb-ref-name>
<ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type>
<home>com.ejb.SessionBeanBHome</home>
<remote>com.ejb.SessionBeanB</remote>
</ejb-ref>
</session>
Include a <reference-descriptor> in weblogic-ejb-jar.xml
<weblogic-enterprise-bean>
<ejb-name>SessionBeanA</ejb-name>
<reference-descriptor>
<ejb-reference-description>
<ejb-ref-name>SessionBeanB</ejb-ref-name>
<jndi-name>com.ejb.SessionBeanBHome</jndi-name>
</ejb-reference-description>
</reference-descriptor>
</weblogic-enterprise-bean>
In SessionBeanA Bean class refer to SessionBeanB with
a remote reference to SessionBeanB.
InitialContext initialContext=new InitialContext();
SessionBeanBHome sessionBeanBHome=(SessionBeanBHome)
initialContext.lookup("com.ejb.SessionBeanBHome");
SessionBeanB sessionBeanB=sessionBeanBHome.findByPrimaryKey(primarykey);
sessionBeanB.update();
sessionBeanB.getAll();
thanks,
Deepak