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EJB Session Bean Deployment

From: Jason Lee <lee_at_iecokc.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:49:45 -0600

I'm having some issues getting my EJB3 session bean to deploy on
Glassfish (nightly from 1/24). I have created the .ear with the session
bean jar and the supporting jars. in META-INF/, I have MANIFEST.MF and
application.xml, which looks like:
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<application xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" version="1.4"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com /xml/ns/j2ee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/application_1_4.xsd">
    <display-name>BrandNameProductSessionBean</display-name>
    <description>Brand Name Product Sesssion Bean</description>
 
    <module><ejb>bnpr.jar</ejb></module>
    <module><java>commons-collections-3.1.jar</java></module>
    <module><java>commons-dbcp-1.2.1.jar</java></module>
    <module><java>commons-pool-1.2.jar</java></module>
    <module><java>concurrent-1.3.4.jar</java></module>
    <module><java>dom4j-1.6.1.jar</java></module>
    <module><java>jdom-1.0.jar</java></module>
    <module><java>postgresql-8.0-311.jdbc3.jar</java></module>
    <module><java>spring.jar</java></module>
    <module><java>whirlycache-0.7.1.jar</java></module>
</application>

Looking at the log files, it appears the GF successfully deploys the ear
(I can send the log file if that would help), but I'm not seeing the
bean show up in the JNDI browser. Don't shoot me, but when I deploy the
same application under JBoss 4 (with the EJB jar renamed to .ejb3, as
per JBoss requirements :| ), JBoss automagically adds
com.iecokc.products.IBrandNameProduct to JNDI, by which my (out of
container) client can look up the bean. No such luck under glassfish.
It's my understanding that, with EJB3, I don't need the extra deployment
descriptors for session beans, etc., so what am I doing wrong?
 
On a side note, Ed Burns wanted me to mention ##jsf on irc.freenode.net.
Ed (and I think one or two other JSF developers) spends time there as
part of his JSF work, and I'm there as a JSF user. He wanted me to
encourage GF devs to come there. It would help me (and others, I'm
sure, a LOT! :).
 
At any rate, I appreciate any help you can give me!
 
--
Jason Lee
Programmer/Analyst