integrating Web tier (Tomcat v4.0b1) with an EJB tier (RI v1.2)

[Bryan Basham <Br...@Sun.COM>]

Hello Tomcat Users,

I am trying to integrate my Web tier with an EJB tier using the Business
Delegate pattern.  I am having a problem on the Web tier side doing the
JNDI lookup on the remote EJB server.  ***A very important note: I am using
Tomcat (v4.0b1) independently of the EJB tier (using the J2EESDK reference
implementation v1.2.1); that is, I am *not* deploying my Web app in the
J2EE server.***

I have the JNDI port on 1052 and the bean is named: java:comp/env/leagueService
Here is the J2EE statup response:
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Naming service started: :1052
Published the configuration object ...
Web service started: 9191
Web service started: 8000
Web service started: 7000
Loading 
jar:/usr/local/j2sdkee1.2.1/repository/basham/applications/SportsLeague983569674
255Server.jar
/usr/local/j2sdkee1.2.1/repository/basham/applications/SportsLeague983569674255S
erver.jar
Binding name:`java:comp/env/leagueService`
Binding name:`java:comp/env/jdbc/SportsLeagueDB`
Looking up authenticator...
Binding name:`java:comp/env/jdbc/SportsLeagueDB`
J2EE server startup complete.
-----------------


On each HTTP request my servlet constructs a new LeagueDelegate object.
In the constructor, the delegate is doing the JNDI lookup on the leagueService
Home interface.  Here is that constructor:
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  public LeagueDelegate() {
System.out.println(">> Entering LeagueDelegate constructor");
    try {
      Hashtable ctxProperties = new Hashtable();
//        ctxProperties.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
//  			"???");
      ctxProperties.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL,
			"basham:1052");
System.out.println(">> creating intial context");
      Context c = new InitialContext(ctxProperties);
System.out.println(">> looking up java:comp/env/leagueService");
      Object result = c.lookup("java:comp/env/leagueService");
System.out.println(">> narrowing the leagueService Home");
      leagueSvcHome
	= (LeagueSessionHome)
	  PortableRemoteObject.narrow(result, LeagueSessionHome.class);

    } catch (Exception e) {
      System.out.println(e);
    }
System.out.println("Exiting LeagueDelegate constructor");
  }
-----------------


This is an excerpt from the Tomcat log file:
-----------------
LeagueAdminController: init
>> Entering LeagueDelegate constructor
>> creating intial context
>> looking up java:comp/env/leagueService
javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Name leagueService is not bound in this 
Context
Exiting LeagueDelegate constructor
-----------------


I have tried several variations on the JNDI name ('leagueService',
'java:leagueService', 'java:ejb/leagueService').  Nothing seems to work.

Also, I tried to figure out what to use for the INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
but nothing I tried seemed to help.

Please let me know if you have any ideas I should try.

Thanks,
Bryan


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