Inject a bean from another application context? - java

Is it possible to inject a bean from a web application that deploy in another server!
I declare a scenario to myself, I have two web application that use spring framework and deploy separately in different application servers (one is TOMCAT and another one is WEBLOGIC),the first application has ServiceA and the second one has ServiceB, now I want to inject ServiceB in ServieA?
I try to do this with RMI once an another one with JMS, now I am wondering that:
Is it possible with another thing?
Is there any active project about this scenario exist?
How can share application context in spring framework, is it possible?
Thanks.

Bean is just an object in JVM. You certainly cannot use an object from one JVM in another JVM straightforward.
But you can do 2 things:
Use proxies - some objects that will have the same interface but invoke somehow to the proper server as implementation.
Use service-oriented architecture (SOA). Each server should have some limited set of beans that are responsible for their functionality. And all beans can interact with each other.
Maybe OSGI is suitable for this.

Web services, JAX-RS is the simplest. But JAX-WS provides you with the tools to automatically generate the client code.

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Where should Business Delegate & Service Locator reside to not have circular dependency in this case?

I am working with Java 1.7, XDoclet 1.2.3, WildFly 8.2.1.Final, Dynamic Web Module 2.5, EJB 2.1 in Eclipse Luna.
I have an Enterprise Application project named
P001_EAR.
I have a Dynamic Web Project named P001_WAR.
I have a EJB Project named P001_EJB.
I have a EJB Client Project named P001_EJBClient.
I have a Utility Project named P001_SRC.
The P001_SRC contains the data layer, domain objects, business interface, helper classes.
The P001_EJB has Stateless Session EJBs which implements the business interface. It has a reference of P001_SRC.
The P001_EJBClient contains the remote and home interfaces of EJBs. It has a reference of P001_SRC.
The P001_WAR contains web stuff listeners, filters, servlets, JSPs, HTMLs. It has a reference of P001_SRC.
This is a typical scenario:
JSP call Servlet, Servlet call Business Delegate, Business Delegate call EJB (using ServiceLocator), EJB perform business operation.
Question is where to put Business Delegate?
I was thinking of putting them in P001_SRC but Business Delegate needs a reference to P001_EJBClient to perform their actions and that means a circular dependency.
How you would solve this issue?
Also the issue is to where to put the Service Locator? Would it go in the same project as Business Delegate?
Thanks
In a classic J2EE design pattern, the each client module of the EJB would have its own Business Delegate, which knows about the actual EJB. In your scenario, it would be in the WAR (as it's the client of the EJB). Similarly, your Service Locator would reside along with your Business Delegate and provide data about where your EJB is.
But seriously, is this some kind of exercise or school/interview question? Or are we traveling back in time? :-)
If this is for a new application, I would seriously consider moving away from EJB 2.x in favor of EJB 3.x, as it simplifies a lot. You can't even say that you "can't move", as you are already using an application server that supports EJB 3.x.

WebApp. Java EE. Where I should initialize my business logic?

I recently started learning java EE (jsp, servlets and some patterns for working with database like a DAO) and I dont understand where I should initialize my bussines logic? I think that create instances of it in body of do*** servlet methods is a bad practice. P.S. my app use DataSource and ConnectionPool for connection with db.
You need to specify your requirement somehow, what initialization you are looking for. Is it a EJB solution? Pure Servlet/JSP solution? etc.
Normally when deploying your application, after an invocation the application will load the required logic.
Of course you can do initialize to speed up the load, to make required code run before users enter the application etc.
In EJB we are talking about #Singleton and #Startup annotations.
For servlet you can use the annotation #WebServlet(name="startup", loadOnStartup="0"). Or put it in your web.xml. Depends how you code.
A more recommended way is to create you own listener, and override the contextInitialized and contextDestoryed methods. E.g. create db connection etc in initialized method and deregister the driver in contextdestory method. Use annotation #WebServletContextListener or add the listener to your web.xml
Also Java web server specific solutions exists, you need to check your vendor.

DI in an EJB/MDB Application

I'm currently developing a small EJB application running on IBM Websphere Application Server 7 (Java EE 5). The app mainly consists of one MDB listening for incoming MQ messages which are transformed and stored in a DB. Currently I'm using a lot of Singleton/Factories to share configurations, mappings, datasource lookups etc. But this actually leads to some very hard to test code. The solution might be using a (simple) DI framework like guice/spring to inject the different instances. The question is: Where to place the initialization/ setup code? Where is the main entry point of the application? How can I inject instances into the MDBs?
it might be worth looking at backing off from using Guice, and trying to work with the injection mechanisms already available with Java EE 5.
Regarding finding a suitable "startup point", unfortunately the EJB specification does not define a way where you can have a bean run at startup. However, the web profile of the EE spec does have one -- you can add a WAR to your application, and set a servlet listener component:
http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/api/javax/servlet/ServletContextListener.html
You can set this to start whenever the application is loaded and started by the container (WebSphere). Watch out for classloader issues though.
Using Spring, you can do it via EJB3 interceptors, see http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/ejb.html#ejb-implementation-ejb3
Useful info on caveats are in the javadoc, make sure you read it: http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/api/org/springframework/ejb/interceptor/SpringBeanAutowiringInterceptor.html

JSF 1.2 + Spring 2.5. How to?

I am using Spring to manage my DAO & Services. And JSF for UI. I want to use dependency injection in my JSF backing-bean. There is an article that explained how I can do that.
But I have two separate projects: one for Service and one for UI. The Spring configuration file is located in Service project.
How can I connect both project with Spring? I want to annotate my JSF pages for DI.
You can achieve this by using Spring Web Flow.
Spring have examples which show:
A JSF centric approach where your Spring and JSF beans are managed/configured the JSF way (faces-config) and a
Spring centric approach where your beans (including ManagedBeans) are managed in the Spring Context.
See Spring Flow Web Home
If you mean that you have one WAR with web services defined in it, and another separate WAR with the JSF stuff, I think it's really two separate projects each with their own Spring configuration.
The web service WAR will use either Spring web services or perhaps HTTP remoting to expose your service interfaces to clients via HTTP. This will have one set of application context configuration, either XML or annotations.
The JSF WAR will have the JSPs and controllers. The controllers will be injected with clients that will interact with the remote services to accomplish what you wish. That's all they need to know about the service WAR. There doesn't need to be any duplication of configuration at all.
It's actually a nice design, because it completely decouples the view from the rest of the problem.
Thank for everyone I did it. My mistake was with bean initialization. I tried to access my injected bean in constructor, but must must did in #PostConstruct method. And all that time i tried to find mistake in my config file. But it was in such simply place :)
I find some solution one:
Sample Application using JSF, Spring 2.5, and Java Persistence APIs with Glassfish v2
. But I have problem with it.
I can post this problem hear or must create new topic? Sorry for stupid question, i'm newbie her.

Servlets + JAX-WS

I'm trying to expose a web service method via JAX-WS annotations. Many examples I've seen reference the EndPoint.publish() method to quickly stand up the service in a standalone app (ex from Java Web Services: Up and Running, 1st Edition):
public class TimeServerPublisher {
public static void main(String[ ] args) {
// 1st argument is the publication URL
// 2nd argument is an SIB instance
Endpoint.publish("http://127.0.0.1:9876/ts", new TimeServerImpl());
}
}
One thing that I'm missing is how to accomplish essentially the same thing but in an existing app. Would I make a servlet to handle this? What is the proper way to publish this service in an existing WAR file?
In a container you don't have to publish like this. The container will do the publish. If you plan to use it in JBoss server try JBossWS otherwise for Tomcat or any other server Axis2 may be the better choice.
Read more from the following links.
http://jbossws.jboss.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=JBossWS
http://ws.apache.org/axis2/
This depends on what WS stack you are using.
If you are using Java 6 then that includes the JAX-WS reference implementation, then you can consult the documentation about JAX-WS RI WAR contents.
As #Jerrish and #andri coments, there are different aproaches and solutions, depending on your concerns.
The idea behind is that you don't need to set the configuration (port, etc) when will be published your web service. The best approach could be to set this via configuration files (XML, properties, etc) or using #Annotations.
For example, if you're accustomed to use frameworks like Guice or Spring, you know that is possible/recommended to start the context of your application publishing or initializing some objects, factories, datasources, etc and publishing webservices is another task that can be done in this time, because will be available when you will start your application, isn't?.
By the way, I've good experiences with CXF and another solution could be Spring Web Services another powerful solution for creating web services.

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