Mikal Henriksen wrote:
But your answer made me realize that we also need to know the name for the implementing class, since that's part of every standard jndi name. Thinking about it, it seems weird that the client should have to know about the name of the server-side class implementing the interface (the exception is of course multiple implementations of the same interface).
You don't need to know the class name of the implementing bean class. That's just a default that gets used. i.e. the bean name defaults to the simple class name of the implementing class. It can always be overriden using the name attribute of the appropriate annotation (@Stateless, @Stateful, @Singleton) or via the ejb-name element of ejb-jar.xml.