[Lmappletserver-developers] lmappletserver-addons as a jar in other projects

[Peter S. <co...@pe...>]

Hi,

Until now, when using lmappletserver-addons, I've always duplicated the 
classes one by one and inserted into the ejb-jar of the destination project. 
However this has not been an optimal solution. My wish has always been to 
just insert lmappletserver-addons.jar as another ejb-jar in the destination 
ear.

Now I've somehow managed to do this. The trick was to inject the 
lmappletserver-addons entitymanagers using jndi (since the entitymanger 
belongs to the destination project). If you look at EntityListManagerBean and 
MetaDataManagerBean, you'll see this new way of injecting...

To make this work - one has to:

1. configure what entitymanager to use (it has to be exposed to jndi) in 
lmappletserver_conf.properties
2. from the destination projects persistence.xml all the Entity beans of 
lmappletserver-addons has to be referenced by class name (cannot get the 
<jar-file> attribute to work properly yet).
3. application.xml of the destination project must refer 
lmappletserver-addons.jar as an ejb module.

This should be correctly set up in the lmappletserver project right now. Tell 
me if something doesn't work correctly anymore. And again - hope this doesn't 
break any of your current work..

cheers,

Peter