How do I use JNDI to get a new stateful Bean session, in EJB3?

Question

I am trying to use JNDI to get a new Bean state session in a servlet (as a local variable). My method doGet()

has the following:

Bean bean = (Bean) new InitialContext().lookup("beanName");

I tried to include java:comp/env

, but all my attempts resulted in name exceptions.

I am trying to bind a Bean in annotation @Stateful

using various type guesses @Stateful(name="beanName")

and@Stateful(mappedName="beanName")

+2

Eric Wilson May 15 '10 at 3:09

1 answer

Eric Wilson · Accepted Answer · 2010-05-19T01:36:39+0000

I needed to use annotation @EJB

for the servlet at the class level like below:

@EJB(name="beanName", beanInterface = Bean.class)

Then the lookup in the service method can happen using the name associated with the annotation @EJB

:

Bean beanInstance = (Bean) new InitialContext().lookup("java:comp/env/beanName");

The Bean class itself doesn't need anything other than a simple annotation @Stateful

.