[JBoss-user] simple deployment problem?

[Eric K. <eri...@ar...>]

I seem to be caught in a catch-22, or something like it.
I have two ejb jars.  Jar A has ejbs which reference those in Jar B.  Both
Jars are then built into an ear file.
In the ejb-jar.xml for jar A, the ejb-ref statements do not have ejb-link
elements for the ejbs in jar b, since they are not in the same jar.
I put jndi-name elements in the jboss.xml for jar b corresponding to the
ejb-ref elements in jar A.

When I deploy, I get the message 
could not deploy file...expected either ejb-link in ejb-jar.xml or jndi-name
in jboss.xml.

Two questions:

1. Is putting the jndi-name elements in jboss.xml in jar b correct?
2. Do I need to put the jndi-name elements in a jboss.xml at all for these
references?  My client has NO problem finding the beans on the server.

I understand the need for flexibility using jndi, but in 98% of the
instances the flexibility is not needed (my bean is called ejb/bean and i
don't need two levels of indirection).  What's the right thing to do here?
I'd include the various xml files but they're pretty long.  I can fix this
apparently by putting the link elements in jar a, but that's not correct
since the references are in jar b...

thanks

Eric Kaplan
Armanta, Inc.
55 Madison Ave.
Morristown, NJ  07960
Phone: (973) 326-9600