FDS and EJB3

[Flex_Architect]

Hello Folks,



I have a couple of issues I am trying to resolve relating to
FDS and EJB3.



First, a question: Is it possible to deploy EJB3 session
beans/JPA entity beans inside the flex.war into a JBoss
implentation? Currently I am having to deploy two .jars (one into
JBoss /deploy and the other into the flex.war/WEB-INF/lib) in order
for FDS or RO communication to talk to EJB. This is resulting in a
facade (on the flex side) using a remote interface request to the
session beans deployed to JBoss. It would be much better if I could
simply access the EJBs directly from inside of a single deployment
(using the local interface) inside of the flex.war.



Second: this is related to the first... as the EJB container
and the flex.war web app are separated is it possible to get a
reference to the MessageBroker from the EJB container? This may
just be my inexperience with J2EE showing, but I get a null
reference to the MessageBroker from inside of an EJB component. For
instance when an EJB timer service goes off I would like to push a
FDS message to a flex client.



Any help is appreciated!

[jrunrandy]

It's been a long time since I did this, but I'll give this a
try...



I've never heard of deployong an EJB inside of a WAR. You
might try making an EAR that has both the Flex WAR and the EJB's
JAR files.



The only other thing I can think of is to try using an
ejb-ref in the flex WAR's web.xml. Something like:



<ejb-ref>

<description>Define reference for simple stateless
session bean</description>

<ejb-ref-name>ejb/Simple</ejb-ref-name>

<ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type>

<home>SimpleHome</home>

<remote>Simple</remote>

</ejb-ref>



although you may need to make corresponding specifications on
the JBoss side. Also, this is for a remote EJB, you'd use an
ejb-local-ref instead of an ejb-ref.



HTH