Spring2.5 + glassfish + jndi remote + Controller

[stacey11]

I have a plain http servlet running under glassfish. It contains an EJB reference:

public class TestServlet extends HttpServlet {
@EJB(name="beanName")
private Bean aBean;
....


The bean is on a remote server. In sun-web.xml (glassfish specific):
<sun-web-app>
<ejb-ref>
<ejb-ref-name>beanName</ejb-ref-name>
<jndi-name>
corbaname:iiop:servername:33700#com.myapp.Bean
</jndi-name>
</ejb-ref>
</sun-web-app>


Deploying works fine. Now I try and get Spring controllers into the act:
@Controller
public class HomeController {

@EJB(name="beanName")
private DSDocDAO limsRepository;


My problem is I don't know where to wire the remote slsb into the Spring context.
Anyone using Spring and Glassfish out there?

[alistair]

Here's how I got it to work (Spring 2.5.2).

In myapp-servlet.xml, I have something like:

  <bean id="jndiFactory" class="org.springframework.jndi.support.SimpleJndiBeanFactory">
    <property name="resourceRef" value="false" />
  </bean>

  <bean class="org.springframework.context.annotation.CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor">
    <property name="alwaysUseJndiLookup" value="true" />
    <property name="jndiFactory" ref="jndiFactory" />
  </bean>

  <bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor" />

  <context:component-scan base-package="com.myapp.controllers" annotation-config="false" />

This basically sets up annotation-based component scanning and dependency injection using a custom JndiFactory that's configured not to prepend lookups with java:comp/env.

Spring does pretty much does everything else: upon seeing HomeController annotated with @Controller, it scans it and sees limsRepository annotated with @EJB, looks up "beanName" in JNDI, and so on and so forth.

Had to wrestle with various naming problems (I use @EJB(mappedName = "..."), YMMV) depending on the application server, but this has worked for me on both Glassfish v2 and JBoss 4.2.