Seam EJB3 in an EAR is it usable by another App?

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Seam EJB3 in an EAR is it usable by another App?

Seam 2.1 and JBoss 4.2.2

I have set up the first App to have the EJB in the EAR with a local interface.

the 2nd app can look up JDNI name "ear-name/ejbname/local" but fails with "NoClassDefFound".

Does the EJB .jar need to be outside of the EAR?

Is this a classloader visibility issue or Is this a JBoss version issue? or something else?

Thank you for your thoughts..

I cannot answer if it will work or not. However, I can tell you how we do this. We have created a @Webservice component that uses this EJB. And then we connect to the Webservice from our other application.

I blogged about this a while back. You can have a read if you are interested.

Shervin 2010-05-20 09:37:22

Thank you I've read it.So it is possible that a Seam EAR can contain an EJB that no other web app can use. a Seam Ear can not use an external EJB with component names and all the niceness. Can it use an external EJB at all?I don't like writing/maintaining code twice.

Jim Ward 2010-05-20 16:48:40

@Jim Ward: You don't have to write code twice. Where ever you have your EJB, you can create a new Webservice that exposes the api of the EJB. (Or even better, just upgrade your EJB to be a webservice also). That should also work.

Shervin 2010-05-20 18:47:15