WLS10.3.1 : How to overload the jndi name of a stateless EJB

Question

Hi,
I am trying to overload the jndi name of a stateless bean defined in an application by using a weblogic-ejb-jar.xml descriptor file.
This does not work.
The ear contains a jar that have a weblogic-ejb-jar.xml file in its META-INF directory. The file is :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<weblogic-ejb-jar
xmlns="http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/90" xmlns:j2ee="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/90 http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/90/weblogic-ejb-jar.xsd">
<weblogic-enterprise-bean>
<ejb-name>HelloWorldBean</ejb-name>
<enable-call-by-reference>true</enable-call-by-reference>
<jndi-name>TOTO</jndi-name>
</weblogic-enterprise-bean>
</weblogic-ejb-jar>
This is the code of my bean :
package test;
import javax.ejb.Local;
import javax.ejb.Remote;
import javax.ejb.Stateless;
@Stateless( name = "HelloWorldBean", mappedName="HWBean")
@Local( IHelloWorldLocal.class)
@Remote( IHelloWorldRemote.class)
public class HelloWorldBean implements IHelloWorldLocal, IHelloWorldRemote
public void sayHello(String name) {
System.out.println( "Hello " + name + "!!!!");
The bean implements the following interfaces :
package test;
public interface IHelloWorldRemote extends IHelloWorld {
package test;
public interface IHelloWorldLocal extends IHelloWorld {
package test;
public interface IHelloWorld {
public void sayHello( String name);
When i browse the JNDI tree, i see the bean registered with the mapped name attribute (HWBean#test.IHelloWorldRemote) but i don't see any bean registered with the name provided by the weblogic-ejb-jar.xml (TOTO)
My standalone client can't perform a lookup using the JNDI name 'TOTO' but reaches the bean when using 'HWBean#test.IHelloWorldRemote'
It seem's that the overload of the Jndi name using the weblogic-ejb-jar file descriptor doesn't work.
Can you help me to solve the problem.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Thank you, my sample works fine with the following weblogic-ejb-jar.xml :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<weblogic-ejb-jar xmlns="http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/10.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/10.0 http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/10.0/weblogic-ejb-jar.xsd">
<weblogic-enterprise-bean>
<ejb-name>HelloWorldBean</ejb-name>
<enable-call-by-reference>true</enable-call-by-reference>
<stateless-session-descriptor>
<business-interface-jndi-name-map>
<business-remote>test.IHelloWorldRemote</business-remote>
<jndi-name>TOTO</jndi-name>
</business-interface-jndi-name-map>
</stateless-session-descriptor>
</weblogic-enterprise-bean>
</weblogic-ejb-jar>