Thanks Ken
I had tried this, and not had any luck. However I thought I'd give it
another go and this time it worked! (I think I may have had a typo :\ )
So, thanks for your input, you have saved me hours of time!
Regards
Drayton
2008/10/28 Kenneth Saks <Kenneth.Saks_at_sun.com>
>
> On Oct 28, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Drayton Brown wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to implement a EJB factory for BlazeDS, an update to this
> library:
> http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1089970
>
> This requires that I be able to *dynamically* instanciate an EJB. In the
> library above this is done like this:
>
> Context ctx = new InitialContext();
> Object res = ctx.lookup( <EJB Name> );
>
> Unfortunately, this does not seem to work anymore. I believe this is due to
> some changes in the servlet specification. (Apparently it worked with
> servlet 2.4, but it doesn't with 2.5).
>
>
> At the moment my application only allows direct injection of EJBs via the
> @EJB annotation, which is not useful at all for what I want to do.
>
> Hi Drayton,
>
> If you already have an @EJB annotation it's very easy to lookup the same
> EJB dependency. Just add
> a name() attribute to the @EJB , e.g. @EJB(name="fooref"). Then, wherever
> in the code you want to lookup
> an EJB add :
> Object res = ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/fooref");
>
> Note that the portion of the name relative to java:comp/env/ is the value
> of the name() attribute in @EJB.
> In addition to allowing for injection, the @EJB annotation serves the same
> purpose as an ejb-ref or
> ejb-local-ref in web.xml. It defines an environment entry within the web
> application's component environment.
>
>
> More on this in our EJB FAQ :
>
> https://glassfish.dev.java.net/javaee5/ejb/EJB_FAQ.html#POJOLocalEJB
> https://glassfish.dev.java.net/javaee5/ejb/EJB_FAQ.html
> #EJB_ejb-ref_ejb_local_ref
>
> --ken
>
>
>
> I would prefer to do this using a local EJB, but if all else fails, I am
> open to switching to remote EJBs.
>
> Your help is greatly appreciated so, thanks in advance!
>
> Regards
> Drayton
>
>
>
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