OC4J EJBQL and EJB 2.0 features

Question

Hello Debu Panda and All
I've got all howtos and I mangaged to get some parts of OC4J [Oracle9iAS (9.0.3.0.0) Containers for J2EE (build 020323.1689)] working.
There are still some issues that are stalling our development. Could you please comment on them, maybe providing an estimate of when they will be solved/implemented?
First of all, a little background. Our application uses many Java Swing application clients that connect to the EAR application in the container.
The ear application has the following structure:
All database access (Oracle 8i, located in its own server) is done exclusively by means of CMP entity beans. A entity bean may access other entity beans. There are workflow session beans (stateful and stateless) that access the entity beans. All clients see only the workflow session beans (session beans fagade).
Our applicatoin is complex, having more than 80 session beans and more than 25 entity beans (not counting entity beans that exist only to represent relationships among entity beans).
There goes the questions:
1) It seems that entity beans cannot currently be referenced by remote interfaces. We couldn't deploy our application using it. Since we could use only local interfaces fot entity beans, thats what is been done now.
2) There is no CMR supported. Is this true?
3) EJBQL seems to be very limited. In the howto examples there are EJBQL statements that compare two numbers. However, when we tried to use String comparisons, it didn't work. Here is the statement:
"SELECT DISTINCT OBJECT(p) FROM Person p WHERE p.name = ?1"
If I compile, package and deploy the ear applicatin with the above EJBQL statement, OC4J generates an exception when executing the finder method. The exception is:
"java.rmi.NoSuchObjectException: Session has timed out
at com.evermind.server.ejb.StatefulSessionEJBObject.throwPassivisat
ception(StatefulSessionEJBObject.java:188)
at Cad023Remote_StatefulSessionBeanWrapper0.obterPessoasPorParteNom
023Remote_StatefulSessionBeanWrapper0.java:754)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.evermind.server.rmi.RMICallHandler.run(RMICallHandler.java:8
at com.evermind.util.ThreadPoolThread.run(ThreadPoolThread.java:64)"
If I remove the where clause, the expection is gone. However, I get all records. ;-)
4) It seems that all EJBQL clauses must be capitalized. Is this true?
FINALY)
Is there a newer OC4J build that could use to get the development going? Do you know where there will be one? Is there any way of contacting the OC4J development team to report bugs?
If you would like, we could discuss it in private e-mail (please use my private mail [email protected]).
Thanks for your attention,
Luis Fernando Soeiro
Hi !! OC4J 9.0.3 developer's preview has most features of EJB 2.0. We are working on updating on our docs and samples for EJB 2.0
Please look at the following URL that has some How Tos on EJB 2.0 features such Local Interfacea, EJB QL, etc : http://otn.oracle.com/tech/java/oc4j/htdocs/oc4j-how-to.html#ejb
regards
Debu Panda
Oracle --------------------------
Luis Soeiro <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]>Type : Question Date : Apr 11, 2002 15:15 PT Hello
Some colleagues and I are trying to port a large project from JBOSS to OC4J. We used JBOSS 3.0 (beta) in order to evaluate EJB2.0 features and see if we could use it. We already have OC4J in production, but only as a JSP/Servlet container. The next step would be to deploy our EJB application to OC4J.
We have read the material and it is written that OC4J (developers preview) is EJB 2.0 compliant. However, the specific documentation and the examples don't show how to specify OC4J specifc XML files. We absolutely need CMR and Local Interfaces, because we don't have the time required to downgrade our JBoss EJB2.0 application to the EJB 1.1 specification. We have over 80 Session Beans and over 20 Entity Beans.
Is there anybody there that can confirm that OC4J developer's preview is really EJB2.0 compliant? If so, could you send me some pointers to information about OC4J container specifc deployment descriptors? The docs listed at the web site don't have EJB2.0 features listed, nor does the Oracle samples.
Thanks for your attention,
desperately,
Luis Fernando Soeiro

Answer 1

HI,
I worked out CMR and EJB-QL with single bean.
Using CMR, it is possible to get one bean reference through other bean, but
When I tried EJB-QL with bean to bean navigation then I run into problem.