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

[Neeraj Agrawal <nagrawal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Also as you pointed out 

"The ejb-client JAR file is specified in the
deployment descriptor of the
ejb-jar file using the optional ejb-client-jar element. The value of the
ejb-client-jar element is the path name specifying the location of the
ejb-client JAR file in the containing Java EE Enterprise Application Archive
(.ear) file. The path name is relative to the location of the referencing
ejb-jar file. "


If a client can resolve a client view
by just having a manifest entry, I think so can EJb jar too ?

-Neeraj Agrawal


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Agrawal/New Haven/IBM on 07/24/2008 10:07 AM -----

From:	Neeraj Agrawal/New Haven/IBM
To:	"General discussion of project-wide or architectural issues." <wtp-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc:	"General discussion of project-wide or architectural issues." <wtp-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>, wtp-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date:	07/24/2008 10:05 AM
Subject:	RE: [wtp-dev] EJb 3.0  and Ejb client project

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Hi Kaloyan,

The spec says 
"In EJB 3.0, a remote client
accesses a session bean through the beanâs remote business interface.
For a
session bean client and component
written to the EJB 2.1 and earlier APIs, the remote client accesses
the session bean through the session
beanâs remote home and remote component interfaces. "

So in the case where you are 3.0 bean
developer without EJb client view, you  will package your bean and
its interfaces in a jar corresponding to the project.. Now a different
user wants to access the beans by just using your bean interfaces, would
you like to provide him bean interface or the  bean  interfaces
along with the implementation too?.  (The client adds a manifest entry
for this jar) Separating the client provides you flexibility of just exporting
the client view project as jar and distributing to the clients.


-Neeraj Agarwal

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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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 

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