I'm having some problems with the global JNDI names of my EJB resources which is (or at least will) cause my JNDI look ups to fail. The project is being developed on Netbeans and is a standard Maven Web Application. When my application is deployed to GF3.0 the application
name is set to something like:
com.example_myapp_war_1.0-SNAPSHOT
which is all well and good from Netbeans point of view because it ensures the
name is unique but it also means all the EJBs get global names such as this:
java:global/com.example_myapp_war_1.0-SNAPSHOT/CustomerService
This, of course, is going to cause problems because every time the version changes all the global names change (I've tested this
by changing the version and the names indeed changed). The
name is being generated from the POM file and it's a concatenation of:
<groupId>com.example</groupId>
<artifactId>myapp</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
Up until now I've got away with just injecting all the resources using @EJB but now I need to access the CustomerService EJB from a JSF Converter so I'm doing a JNDI look up like this:
try {
Context ctx = new InitialContext();
CustomerService customerService = (CustomerService)ctx.lookup( "java:global/com.example_myapp_war_1.0-SNAPSHOT/CustomerService" );
return customerService.get(submittedValue);
} catch( Exception e ) {
logger.error( "Failed to convert customer.", e );
return null;
}
which will clearly break when the application is properly released and the module
name changes. So, the million dollar question: how can I set the modle
name in maven or how do I recover the module
name so that I can programatically build the JNDI
name at runtile. I've tried setting it in the web.xml file as suggested
by that link but it was ignored. I think I'd rather build the
name at runtime as that means there is less scope for screw ups when the application is deployed.
Many thanks for any help, I've been tearing my hair out all day on this.
