Glassfish and support and the community (solution for remote lookups of EJBs)

Hi,
two days ago I've written in this blog about an issue regarding the remote lookup of EJBs. It's still not clear if it is a bug or not. Nevertheless I found a solution or workaround if you want so.
Before I present the solution I want to praise the Glassfish team (mainly Sun employess) and the community. They are very helpful and in this case they also have been very responsive.
On Monday I've opened a case in the issue tracker: https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1643
One hour later I got the first response. Someone asked for details and has given a few advices. The same day three other people contacted me and tried to help me and discussed the problem. Whereelse do you get such support? This was really very impressive. This gives a lot of confidence in using Glassfish even in production.

And here comes the solution or workaround:

1) If you have a session (target) bean as in my case, then give it a mappedName as followe:

@Stateless(mappedName="ejb/FooJNDI")

2) In my servlet (client) I had to declare the dependency as follows

import javax.ejb.EJB;

@EJB(name="ejb/Foo", beanInterface=Foo.class,
mappedName="corbaname:iiop::#ejb/FooJNDI")
public class BarBean ...{
public void someMethod() {
ctx = new InitialContext();
Foo foo = (Foo) ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/ejb/Foo");

Note host and port are target's host and port.

This solution/workaround is necessary to lookup beans located in different Glassfish containers which are e.g. on different host machines.

Cannot Locate Remote EJB From Servlet

Hi,

since two days I fight with glassfish. I've opened an issue:
https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1643

What I try to do sounds very simple and is working like a charm from standalone clients.

1.) Initialize InitialContext

InitialContext ic = null;
Properties props = new Properties();
props.setProperty(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialInitContextFactory");
props.setProperty(Context.URL_PKG_PREFIXES, "com.sun.enterprise.naming");
props.setProperty(Context.STATE_FACTORIES, "com.sun.corba.ee.impl.presentation.rmi.JNDIStateFactoryImpl");
props.setProperty("com.sun.appserv.iiop.endpoints","10.10.1.212:11237"); //env.put("com.sun.appserv.iiop.endpoints","host1:port1,host2:port2,...");
props.setProperty("org.omg.CORBA.ORBInitialHost", "devasws056.proemion.com");
props.setProperty("org.omg.CORBA.ORBInitialPort", "11237");
ic = new InitialContext(props);

2.) Locate EJB (3.0)

Object o = (MyBeanRemote) ic.lookup("com.ejbs.MyBeanRemote");

Where the standalone client works as expected I have difficulties in locating the ejb from a servlet. EJB and Servlet reside in different applications (different ear files) but are deployed on the appserver instance.

Currently I still get a NameNotFoundException on the server. I hope that I will find a solution soon. Luckily some people are trying to help me already. The glassfish team/community is very responsive.

I will inform you as soon as I have found a solution.