RE: [wtp-dev] EJb 3.0 and Ejb client project

["Raev, Kaloyan" <kaloyan.raev@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Neeraj,

 

Please see related bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/220156 that explains why having a EJB client project requires having ejb-jar.xml descriptor. It is not a restriction. It is requirement by the EJB spec to declare the client jar in the ejb-jar.xml - hence we need to generate ejb-jar.xml.

 

There are absolutely no restrictions to have an ejb.jar.xml and all your EJB bean metadata to be in annotations. In this case, the only metadata in the ejb-jar.xml will be the ejb-client-jar tag, which does not have a Java annotation alternative. I don't understand your worry here.

 

Greetings,

Kaloyan

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From: wtp-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wtp-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Neeraj Agrawal
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:30 PM
To: wtp-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [wtp-dev] EJb 3.0 and Ejb client project

In WTP, for EJB 3.0 projects you 
can't  create EJB client project unless you have deployment descriptor, and 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=238830,  we are requiring  deployment descriptor to 
be generated when you create a client project. 

I think that is a restriction we are imposing, it means 
we cannot create an EJB client view. 
Think of the case where you  have  EJb project with no 
deployment descriptor  and just have annotated beans, and the clients of 
the beans are remote.  Since you cannot have client view project, you wont 
be able to distribute interfaces easily. 


Thanks 
-Neeraj 
Agrawal 

Java EE Tooling 
IBM Rational Software