I implemented a small ecommerce site just to investigate J2EE and EJB capabilities. I did it with the reference implementation using a lot of CMP Entity Beans with local interfaces and everything went well.

Then I decided to play a bit with the evaluation version of WebSphere 4.0 and I was disappointed in discovering that when I tried to create a new EJB component, in the creation wizard there was no place where specify the local interfaces for the component itself.

So the question is: does Websphere support components with local interfaces? Where do I specify such interfaces?

Thank you,
Fabio

Fabio,

I have to disappoint you...WebSphere 4.0 supports only EJB1.1. Local interfaces were intoduces with EJB2.0. There is a WebSphere Developer Edition (a beta of WebSphere 5.0) which has support for EJB2.0.

Otherwise try Bea Weblogic6 or higher, Pramati...there are a lot of J2EE1.3 certified AppServers out there...


Have fun!

Mirko

Local Interfaces are the new part of J2EERI1.3.1 onwards .When we ( my prof & myself) asked IBM, no need for those is what IBM said.people are not implementing these itself,why new and new technologies.

I really doubt whether IBM will support in 5.0 as mentioned
Good luck and keep trying...

Prasath

Hi Mirko!

I'm really disappointed. We used WebSphere 3.5 and it implemented the EJB1.1 specification. I really believed that version 4.0 was EJB2.0 compliant. Probably I read that somewhere but there was obviously a misunderstanding.

Thank you anyway! :)

Bye,
Fabio