Using local session bean interface from web container using EJB 3.0

Question

Hi,
How can you use a local session bean interface from Java (rather than data controls) in a web container using EJB 3.0?
I can use a remote interface by looking up InitialContext, but I can't find a local interface this way (even from another session EJB). I can use a local interface from an EJB using annotation "EJB", but as I understand, this is not available in the web container.
If I try to add an ejb-jar.xml file, these seems to mess up by project...
Hope you can help.
Roger

Answer 1

The portable way to retrieve an EJB reference in Java EE is to either inject it or look it up via the
component's private naming environment. The simplest way is :
@EJB
private DocumentManager dm;
The global JNDI name is only used as an implementation specific way to uniquely assign an
identifier to a specific Remote EJB. It's best for this not to appear directly in the source code.
There's more on global JNDI names in our EJB FAQ :
https://glassfish.dev.java.net/javaee5/ejb/EJB_FAQ.html
The alternative to annotations is to use an ejb-ref to declare the ejb dependency. The ejb-ref
is declared in the standard deployment descriptor corresponding to the component doing the
lookup. Each ejb-ref has an ejb-ref-name, e.g. <ejb-ref-name>DM_ref</ejb-ref-name>
The code looks up the ejb-ref-name relative to the java:comp/env namespace to retrieve the
EJB reference.
DocumentManager dm = (DocumentManager)
new InitialContext().lookup("java:comp/env/DM_ref");