Remote EJB call hangs after making successful call to a second EJB

[menardr]

I have two EJB 3.0s; EJB 1 is deployed on server A and EJB 2 is deployed on server B. I can successful call any method on either EJB.

Our business requires that a method on EJB 1 calls a method on EJB 2. When I make the call, the method (EJB 2) gets executed completely (as per logs) but the results never make it back to the client. The client hangs.

I can see the constructor and desired method being called, on EJB 2.

The context.xml file for EJB 1 has the following bean for EJB 2 (demsManagerLdap):

<bean id="demsManagerLdap" class="org.springframework.ejb.access.SimpleRemote StatelessSessionProxyFactoryBean">
<property name="jndiTemplate"><ref bean="jndiTemplateEjb"/></property>
<property name="jndiName"><value>DemsManagerLdap#com.bmw.dem s.domain.ldap.DemsManagerLdap</value></property>
<property name="businessInterface"><value>com.bmw.dems.domai n.ldap.DemsManagerLdap</value></property>
</bean>

The method I'm debugging receives two strings and returns a boolean.

Its like the remote EJB 2 is not being release and therefore causing the hold.

Ideas?

[menardr]

Further note; after stepping deeper into the weblogic generated ejb 3.0 source file I found the line that it seems to hang on;

try {
// Here is where we try to commit if it's our TX
doTxRetry = super.postInvokeTxRetry(__wrap, __ee);
} catch (java.lang.Throwable t) {
__ee = t;
doTxRetry = false;
// do not attempt any Tx Retry if we encountered
// an exception while attempting postInvokeTxRetry
// instead go directly to postInvokeCleanup
}