how to call a simple EJB (stateless session bean) -outside the conext

[patnim17]

Hi,
I have a simple Stateless session bean depployed in my local machine in weblogoc 8.1.

Now I have a test java program with main method in it, that is not deployed in the weblogic server. I need to just call this EJB from this Test Java prgram.

What are the steps I need to call this EJB. I need to know the steps to create the initial context and then do a lookup.

thanks
pat

 

[timw]

If your context parameters are specified in a jndi.properties file somewhere on the classpath, then creating the initial context is as simple as

Context ctx = new InitialContext();

Then you'd probably have something like this to get the Home Interface for your bean:-

      Object obj = initialContext.lookup("jndi lookup");
      Homeinterface home = (Homeinterface)javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject.narrow(obj, Homeinterface.class);

Tim

 

[patnim17]

thanks for the response.
If I don't have the jndi.properties file...then how do I create the initialContext object?

 

[timw]

I'd recommend using a jndi.properties file because it allows you to redeploy you client without altering code. You can create one easily enough, you know. It's only a text file in the format of property=value pairings, one per line.

If you don't want to do that, you can always put your values into a Hashtable and pass that into the InitialContext constructor. It will create an InitialContext from that.

Tim