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How to pass an entity class in remote method invocation from a Enterprise Client application to EJB

 
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Hello,

Having passed my Java Programmer II exam last month I am now diving into the world of java EE, meaning I am quite a newbie on both Java and EE.
Currently I am trying to implement an example from the book "Beginning Java EE 6 platform with glassfish"  from scratch with NetBeans.
The goal is to create a stateless enterprise bean BookEJB that implements a remote interface with createBook(book) and deleteBook(book) methods.
CreateBook should persist the book in a mySql database and deleteBook should delete it from the database.
An Enterprise Application client will remotely call createBook and deleteBook.
Book is an entity class.

I am following the process described in https://netbeans.org/kb/docs/javaee/entappclient.html.
However this example does not involve passing an entity class while invoking the remote methods.
This is exactly where I am getting into trouble..

What I have done:

1) Create a new Java  - Java Class Library project "BookRemote" for the remote interface, e.g.



2) Create a Java EE - Enterprise Application project named "BookEnterpriseApp" with a EJB module "BookEnterpriseApp-ejb"
3) Create a new glassfish JDBC resource on the enterprise app and import the resulting glassfish-resources.xml as a resource on glassfish. Ping successful.
4) Create a new stateless session bean inside BookEnterpriseApp-ejb, called BookEJB while checking checkbox remote in project BookRemote:



4) Create the Book Entity.



I decided to add the Book entity inside the BookRemote project, since it is needed in the interface methods that I need to add:



I did not create a persistence.xml in BookRemote since when I try that I cannot choose the JDBC resource I have added earlier.
This results in warning "project does not contain a persistence unit" on the line @Entity in Book.java.

5) Add a persistence.xml inside BookEnterpriseApp-ejb that refers to the jdbc resource:



6) Create a new Java EE - Enterprise Application Client project named "BookClient", and call BookEJB methods as follows:



7) Deploy and run the client app.

This results in exceptions:
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java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
...
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Object: avt.book.entity.Book[ id=null ] is not a known Entity type.


My Questions:
- Should I indeed add the book entity inside the BookRemote project?
- if yes, what should I change to prevent the execption?



 
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My Questions:
- Should I indeed add the book entity inside the BookRemote project?
- if yes, what should I change to prevent the execption?  


Yes, you need to add the Remote Interface and all the dependent classes (e.g. superclasses, classes used as method parameters) in the client-jar.

Application client jars are always tough to get it right because it needs a lot of application server dependent configuration. Why don't you try a Servlet? Just have a look at my example (chapter 10) in the EJB 3.1 notes: OCEEJBD-Links.
 
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Hi Frits,

Thanks for your quick reply.

I think the next chapter of my book also will go into web applications which probably is a much more common use case than the client application..

In the mean time I somehow managed to make it work by unchecking the "include all entity classes" and adding explicitly the fully qualified Book class in the persistence.xml on BookEnterpriseApp-ejb.
This was suggested in some posts I came across this afternoon but before it resulted in not being able to deploy the BookEnterpriseApp-ejb.

The only thing I can think of doing differently this time is that I initially created the book entity inside BookEnterpriseApp-ejb and then dragged it (refactored it) into the BookClient project.
So still too much hocus-pocus to be completely satisfying but still a happy end of a day of trying ;-)

Next week I might just try once from scratch to see if I can make it work at once.



Regards,

Arno
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Nice! Well done, and thanks for reporting your solution. (have a Cow!)

So still too much hocus-pocus to be completely satisfying but still a happy end of a day of trying ;-)  


Netbeans has some nice wizards and takes a lot of configuration away from the user which can be a pain. My advice is to check after you are finished what classes are in the EAR, WAR or JARs created by Netbeans.
 
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