Can we lookup(access) the bean directly?

[Sachin Lewis]

can we directly look up the bean, i mean instead of giving lookup of the datasource?

[Pradeep bhatt]

What do you mean by Datasource?
You will have to lookup the bean using Context API.

[Sachin Lewis]

Hi,
I mean instead of using Properties,IntialContextFactory... and so on, how to do it with EJB Refrence ?

Example : (Instead of the below code, how to lookup the bean directly using EJB Refrence)
Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.put("java.naming.factory.initial", "com.ibm.websphere.naming.WsnInitialContextFactory");
properties.put("java.naming.provider.url", "iiop://.....");
InitialContext initialcontext = new InitialContext(properties);
CartHome carthome = (CartHome)initialcontext.lookup("cartjndi");
Cart cart = carthome.create();

Cheers,
Sachin

[Kyle Brown]

The answer is no. That would defeat the purpose of EJB's by not allowing their lifecycle to be managed.
Kyle

[Lasse Koskela]

Here's a one-page tutorial for ejb-ref's.

[Sachin Lewis]

Thank You all. The replies helped me.
Cheers,

Sachin Lewis