RE: [wtp-dev] EJb 3.0 and Ejb client project

[Chuck Bridgham <cbridgha@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kaloyan,

I encouraged Neeraj to post this question,
because in EJB 3.0, the "ejb-client-jar" is only declaring a
dependency on another jar in its MANIFEST classpath, and in reality, bean
interfaces could be included in many dependent jar's.  As long as
its listed in the MANIFEST.  We discussed locally with our IBM spec
expert, and he agreed the dd xml isn't required in this case.

Can we add this to the discussion in
an hour?     I'll call-in, and I encourage anyone else to join
as well - Carl posted an agenda

http://wiki.eclipse.org/JEE_Status_Meetings#Meeting_Minutes

Thanks - Chuck

Rational Java EE Tooling Team Lead
IBM Software Lab - Research Triangle Park, NC
cbridgha@xxxxxxxxxx  Ph: 919-254-1848 (T/L: 444)

From:	"Raev, Kaloyan" <kaloyan.raev@xxxxxxx>
To:	"General discussion of project-wide or architectural issues." <wtp-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	07/24/2008 07:03 AM
Subject:	RE: [wtp-dev] EJb 3.0  and Ejb client project

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Hi Neeraj, 
 
Please see related bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/220156
that explains why having a EJB client project requires having ejb-jar.xml
descriptor. It is not a restriction. It is requirement by the EJB spec
to declare the client jar in the ejb-jar.xml - hence we need to generate
ejb-jar.xml. 
 
There are absolutely no restrictions
to have an ejb.jar.xml and all your EJB bean metadata to be in annotations.
In this case, the only metadata in the ejb-jar.xml will be the ejb-client-jar
tag, which does not have a Java annotation alternative. I don't understand
your worry here. 
 
Greetings,
Kaloyan

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From: wtp-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Behalf Of Neeraj Agrawal
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:30 PM
To: wtp-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [wtp-dev] EJb 3.0 and Ejb client project


In WTP, for EJB 3.0 projects you can't  create EJB client project
unless you have deployment descriptor, and https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=238830,
 we are requiring  deployment descriptor to be generated when
you create a client project. 

I think that is a restriction we are imposing, it means we cannot create
an EJB client view. 
Think of the case where you  have  EJb project with no deployment
descriptor  and just have annotated beans, and the clients of the
beans are remote.  Since you cannot have client view project, you
wont be able to distribute interfaces easily. 


Thanks 
-Neeraj Agrawal 

Java EE Tooling 
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