I have 2 ejb beans, one is deployed in BEA weblogic 8.1 and the other one is deployed in JBoss 3.2.6
I want to modify my bean deployed in JBoss to be able to make call(s) to bean deployed in BEA.
I am new to EJB programming, so I am not sure if it is possible to achieve this.
Thanks for the help.

Any java process can be an EJB client, including other EJBs running in any server, as long as it can do a remote JNDI lookup and the EJB you want to call has a remote interface.

You need to get a reference to your WL Bean using from the Weblogic JNDI tree:

p.put("java.naming.factory.initial", "weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory");
p.put("java.naming.provider.url", "t3://localhost:7110");
etc.

So your JBoss bean needs wlclient.jar in its classpath, so it can create weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory and get access to the EJBs.

Thanks Adrian for the response.
I tried to add wlclient.jar to jboss but it fails complaining of classcastexception, because it has both the namingFactories (Jboss and WebLogic).
Where should I put my wlclient.jar to avoid this classCastException.
My problem is if i put wlclient.jar in jboss classpath, Jboss does not loads, as it also has it's NamingFactory.

If i do not put wlclient.jar in Jboss classpath I get following error when i try to reference Weblogic bean from Jboss Bean.

javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Cannot instantiate class: weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory [Root exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: No ClassLoaders found for: weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory]

Thanks in advance.

Yes, it must go in the ejb classpath rather than the server classpath. To do this, include wlclient.jar in the root of the ejb jar rather than in the server lib folder.

Hope this helps.

Thanks Adrian.
It worked. Thanks for the help.

Thanks

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