Hi Marina,
The Java EE 5 specification says:
[i]
EE.5.5.2Application Assembler’s Responsibilities
The Application Assembler can use the ejb-link element in the deployment descriptor to link an EJB reference to a target enterprise bean.
The Application Assembler specifies the link to an enterprise bean as follows:
•The Application Assembler uses the optional ejb-link element of the ejb-ref or ejb-local-ref element of the referencing application component. (...) The target enterprise bean can be in any ejb-jar file in the same Java EE application as the referencing application component.[/i]
So, package your J2EE application client and EJB application jars in one EAR and the client can refer to the EJBs in the ejb-jar using ejb-ref's ejb-link tag.
Note that the application-client.xml's DTD/schema supports the ejb-link tag. If you can't use it (an application client has no local EJB beans, it only does remote lookups), why would it be there?
#This is from (my interpretation of) the spec's point of view and does not answer the original question whether it is possible on GlassFish, of course.
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