How do I call a remote EJB in an EAR from another?

Question

In Weblogic 10.3, how do I inject a remote EJB from one EAR into a Stateless bean of another, both EARs being deployed in the same container? Ideally I'd like to do as much as possible with annotations.

So suppose I have the following interface:

public interface HelloService {
  public String hello();
}

implemented by the following EJB:

@Stateless
@Remote
public class HelloServiceBean implements HelloService {
  public String hello() {
      return "hello";
  }
}

Suppose they're packaged and deployed in server.ear. Now in client.ear, I have the following:

@Stateless
public class HelloClientBean {
    @EJB
    HelloService helloService;

// other methods...
}

What do I need to add so that Weblogic figures out the wiring correctly between HelloClientBean in client.ear and HelloServiceBean in server.ear? Pointers to official documentations and/or books warmly welcome.

Shameless bump. All I've figured out so far is that Weblogic will bind a stateless bean annotated with @Stateless(mappedName="foo") to "foo#fully.qualified.interface.name" in JNDI. But how should I then annotate my helloService field in HelloClientBean? — lindelof

lindelof lindelof · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-03T09:53:27

The easiest solution I've found so far is the following.

First, annotate the stateless bean with a mappedName attribute:

@Stateless(mappedName="HelloService")
@Remote
public class HelloServiceBean implements HelloService {
  public String hello() {
      return "hello";
  }
}

According to http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=800314&tstart=1, Weblogic will never create a JNDI entry for an EJB unless a JNDI name is given as the mappedName attribute (or in the deployment descriptor, or in a proprietary annotation).

Next, you can now annotate your client field with @EJB with a mappedName attribute, which should be the same as the attribute on the server bean. (I am honestly baffled by this. NameNotFoundException when calling a EJB in Weblogic 10.3 suggests that I should be able to use the mappedName#interfaceName syntax, but in my tests this doesn't work.):

@Stateless
public class HelloClientBean {
    @EJB(mappedName="HelloService")
    HelloService helloService;

// other methods...
}

This now works, as long as both EARs are deployed in the same container. Next I'll try to figure out the right syntax when they are deployed on different machines.

How do I call a remote EJB in an EAR from another?

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