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Can you statically derive an EJB3 bean's portable JNDI name?

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Evening all,

I don't use EJB3, and am trying to learn more about it and play with it a 
bit. Things have definitely improved since i last did EJB to pay the 
bills.

Now, the normal way to get hold of a reference to an enterprise bean (FSVO 
'reference') is to use injection. Excellent. But sometimes (eg when coming 
from a non-bean object), we have to resort to JNDI. One of the things EJB3 
added was a portable JNDI syntax, so that beans will be bound to the same 
name in different app servers. Lovely. There is an informative but 
slightly incorrect description of this here:

http://download.oracle.com/javaee/6/tutorial/doc/gipjf.html#girgn

The incorrectnesses that i've noticed are its claims that (a) the module 
name is optional in a java:app name, and (b) the bean name and interface 
name are separated with a '/' (the spec says it's a '!').

Anyway, there's something i'd like to do (over the details of which i will 
draw a discreet veil) which i think requires me to write a function like:

public static <T> resolveBean(Class<T> beanClass)

I am prepared to assume that the bean being looked up was defined with 
annotations rather than through XML, and that it is in the same module (or 
rather, i am prepared to accept more complexity when it is not). I can 
write that function as:

public static <T> resolveBean(Class<T> beanClass) throws various exceptions {
 	String path = determineBeanPath(beanClass);
 	InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();
 	return beanClass.cast(ic.lookup(path));
}

Where i still need to write this:

public static String determineBeanPath(Class<T> beanClass)

I think i can do this. Am i right? Is there already a utility to do this 
somewhere?

To be specific, i think i can generate a URL that looks like this:

"java:module/" + beanName + "!" + interfaceName

beanName will be the 'name' attribute of the @Stateless, @Stateful, or 
@Singleton annotation, if there is one, or else the unqualified name of 
the class. interfaceName will be the fully-qualified name of a business 
interface, if there is one, or of the class if not (or the class is 
annotated @LocalBean). I can find the interfaces by looking for a @Remote 
or @Local annotation on the class and picking one of its values, or else 
searching its implemented (and inherited?) interfaces to find one itself 
annotated with @Remote or @Local.

All of this assumes that there is no mappedName in play. If bean class's 
@S* annotation declares one, i can either use it, try it and fail over to 
the portable name, ignore it, or abort the mission.

Have i gone bonkers? Does this sound plausible?

tom

-- 
Sorry. Went a bit Atari Teenage Riot there. -- Andrew

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Can you statically derive an EJB3 bean's portable JNDI name? Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-04-22 21:54 +0100

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