placing ejb and web modules

[diwakar k.]

Hi !
Please help me. Basically if our application contains EJB and Web modules, we would make a ".jar" and ".war" file respectively and pack them in an ".ear" and deploy in the server. But I have the following problem.
I have an application where my web modules have bean classes which help in getting respective EJBs. For this I have to import those ejb packages as well; So I want to know that what should be the composition of the war file?? Should I include the ejb package in the ".war" file??

[Naapa Sekhar Ramesh]

You can have the ejb class files bundled in the ear in the following path

WEB-INF\classes

[Naapa Sekhar Ramesh]

Sorry, there is a typo in my previous reply.

You can have the ejb class files bundled in the .war file in the following path

WEB-INF\classes

[David Chung]

Diwakar,

Actually you should not have to worry. The default classloader behavior for an EAR is that EJBs are loaded in the Application classloader and each Web app is loaded in its own child classloader. So if you JavaBeans are in the WAR (WEB-INF/classes or WEB-INF/lib directory) they will be able to use the localhome and local (or remote) interfaces since they will have been loaded by the parent or Application classloader. There is no need to copy the EJB classes into the WAR.