Problem running Java client of EJB deployed on WebSphere

Question

Hi,
I am using websphere studio 5.1.2 with fix pack 3. I have a sample Stateless Session Bean (EJB) deployed and running on websphere.
I wrote a small Java client program as below.
import java.util.Hashtable;
import HelloJavaHome;
import HelloJava;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.ejb.EJBHome;
import javax.ejb.EJBObject;
public class RemoteConn {
public static void main(String[] ar) throws Exception{
String greeting = "";
try{
Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
//env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.ibm.websphere.naming.WsnInitialContextFactory");
//env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.ibm.ejs.ns.jndi.CNInitialContextFactory");
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.ibm.ws.naming.util.WsnInitCtxFactory");
//env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "corbaloc:iiop:myhost.mycompany.com:2809/NameServiceCellPersistentRoot");
env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "iiop://localhost:2809");
System.out.println("Before creating context ");
InitialContext initContext = new InitialContext(env);
System.out.println("Before looking up HelloJavaHome.");
//Object obj = initContext.lookup("java:comp/env/ejb/HelloJavaHome");
Object obj = initContext.lookup("ejb/HelloJavaHome");
System.out.println("After lookup javahome.");
HelloJavaHome home = (HelloJavaHome) javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject.narrow(obj, HelloJavaHome.class);
HelloJava remote = home.create();
greeting = remote.getGreeting("John");
catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
System.out.println("Greeting::"+ greeting);
I did not have any problem if I write and run this client from Websphere studio environment..
However its giving lot of compilation and runtime errors when I tried to run from command line.
I could eliminated compilation errors by setting the below jar files in the classpath.
testclient.jar; (client jar of my EJB)
j2ee.jar;
naming.jar;ras.jar;
wsexception.jar;
bootstrap.jar;
namingclient.jar;
websphere.jar;server.jar;
ejbcontainer.jar;
ecutils.jar;
Now it is throwing runtime error after the statement, "Before looking up HelloJavaHome.", has printed. Here is the stack trace of exception ..
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.ibm.CORBA.iiop.GlobalORBFactory
at com.ibm.ejs.oa.EJSORBImpl.class$(EJSORBImpl.java:44)
at com.ibm.ejs.oa.EJSORBImpl.initializeORB(EJSORBImpl.java:195)
at com.ibm.ejs.oa.EJSClientORBImpl.(EJSClientORBImpl.java:93)
at com.ibm.ejs.oa.EJSClientORBImpl.(EJSClientORBImpl.java:65)
at com.ibm.ejs.oa.EJSORB.init(EJSORB.java:385)
at com.ibm.ws.naming.util.Helpers.getOrb(Helpers.java:284)
at com.ibm.ws.naming.util.WsnInitCtxFactory.getInitialContextInternal(WsnInitCtxFactory.java:369)
at com.ibm.ws.naming.util.WsnInitCtx.getContext(WsnInitCtx.java:112)
at com.ibm.ws.naming.util.WsnInitCtx.getContextIfNull(WsnInitCtx.java:422)
at com.ibm.ws.naming.util.WsnInitCtx.lookup(WsnInitCtx.java:143)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:347)
at RemoteEJBConn.main(RemoteEJBConn.java:38)
I appreciate if sombody could help me ASAP fixing this problem.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try using the IBM JVM (theres one shipped with WebSphere in websphere_home\AppServer\java
Also include idl.jar and ffdc.jar on the classpath