I have written EJB's which receive and process ChangeObject
in response to the sync method call. Class version erros like
ClassNotFoundException and ClassCastException are created when
applications written to receive ChangeObject are not running in the
same web application as Flex (and thus created by the same
classloader). I have tried moving the jar file to a global area so
a parent classloader would take over, but this causes new problems
for the Flex framework.
I have found a clever way to configure a special EAR file
which integrates the Flex WAR, my EJB's, and includes special
overrides in JBossAS which control classloading. It works, but was
time consuming to develop and forces our applications to be
deployed in only this way.
I would like to ask that the jar which contains ChangeObject
be redesigned to allow it to be deployed away from Flex, so I can
separate my EJB deployments from the Flex WAR deployment. I believe
the problems were caused by the messaging framework servlets or
classes they depend on not being in the WAR any longer.
I could get around this by using the remote EJB interface
rather than the local interface, but in the same JVM the
performance is many, many times faster when parameters are sent by
reference rather than through serialization (pass by value).
