Thanks for the feedback Valentin,
You are quiet correct: both war and ejbs are maintained seperately. Although I do appreciate your points on local interfaces, there are several reasons for this in our architecture, including:
a. web and application server will be seperated so all requests will operate remotely (via a stateless session bean facade)
b. we don't want every developer to access the business logic (ejbs) so an ear containing both ejbs and servlets is not possible.(we use xdoclet to produce the interfaces seperately)
The interesting thing is that even if I don't change the ejbs and merely re-deploy them and error is thrown in the lookup. I would have assumed that one benefit of
j2ee is to be able to redeploy EJBs without affecting your presentation tier?
If I get anywhere with this I'II let you know,
Thanks again!
Keith.