[Springframework-developer] ejbtest integration sample in autobuilds working again

[Colin S. <col...@ex...>]

The 'ejbtest' integration test sample in autobuilds had been broken by 
developments in recent months (in the Spring codebase, mainly jars and 
the like moved around), without me or anybody else picking this up.

I've gone through and fixed the sample so it works again. Originally 
this sample had been tested with JBoss 3.2. I've made it work with JBoss 
4.0.2 and 4.0.3SP1, which required some rework of the local EJB 
handling, as JBoss 4.0 is more compliant with the (EJB 2.1) spec and no 
longer binds local bean homes in a globally known JNDI location, where 
the sample was trying to use them from. Instead, they must be accessed 
only via the Environmental Naming Context (ENC) JNDI tree, which 
required adding <ejb-local-ref> elements in the web.xml or ejb.xml files 
of components that need to access them. More EJB XML, ughh! Anyway, it's 
working now.

I will at some point relatively soon try to go into this app again to 
make sure it works with WebLogic and WebSphere too. One issue is that 
right now it relies on a unified classloader being used for all jars and 
ejbs loaded at the ear (applicaiton.xml) level. This is probably not the 
default in WebLogic and WebSphere.

Colin