I think your best option would be to use a separate jar for the entities that is
placed under <ear>/lib directory.
Regards,
-marina
Ryan de Laplante wrote:
> I'm not sure where else to ask a question like this.
>
> Back in the EJB 2.x days with CMP, the CPM entities were not returned by
> session beans. The entity would be converted into POJO value objects
> before being returned. I used to put the value object POJOs in a common
> jar file that the EJB project and EJB client project would depend on.
> In the Java EE5 world, I have been returning the actual JPA entities
> from my EJB3 session beans. Since the JPA entity classes live inside of
> the EJB jar file, the persistence.xml lives in there too, and my web
> project has a build dependency on the EJB project. This hasn't been a
> big deal for me since I use EJB Local, but I've always wondered if this
> is the right way to do it.
>
> Can anyone share with me the Java EE5 patterns you use, or links to
> pages that talk about this?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
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