How to - stateful session bean

[Manish Kamat]

when I call entity bean from stateful session bean it gives me error:ClassNotfoundException...
my entity bean is in package A, statefulbean is in package B and both packages are in project P.
If anyone can tell me how to call if i'm wrong..
thanks in advance

[Maximilian Trenks]

you can't just call a bean from the other.
you have to step through the usual procedure, looking it up (or use the servicelocator pattern to receive a reference to the bean) via JNDI.
to do so you need to add a bean reference to the deployment descriptors.
i don't know for sure, but in the j2ee tutorial you should find more infos about it:
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/tutorial/1_3-fcs/doc/J2eeTutorialTOC.html

[Manish Kamat]

i've given ejb-ref-name but still it gives error.
my weblogic-ejb-jar.xml is as follows:
<weblogic-ejb-jar>
<weblogic-enterprise-bean>
<ejb-name>project.packageA</ejb-name>
...
<reference-descriptor>
<ejb-reference-description>
<ejb-ref-name>project.packageB</ejb-ref-name>
<jndi-name>project.packageB</jndi-name>
</ejb-reference-description>
</reference-descriptor>
<jndi-name>project.packageA</jndi-name>
</weblogic-enterprise-bean>
</weblogic-ejb-jar>
anything wrong in ref given by me?
i'm looking up for entity bean from seesion bean usual way
e.g. ctx.lookup("project.packageB")
please correct me if I'm wrong...

[Maximilian Trenks]

sorry, i am no weblogic expert, but you can post your question in the weblogic forum here on javaranch.com:
http://www.coderanch.com/forums/f-40/BEA-Weblogic