[jboss-as7-dev] Invoking remote EJBs on JBoss AS 4/5/6 from JBoss AS 7

[Stephen Coy]

The security context certainly seems to be transferred over. At least the the correct CallerPrincipal seems to show up.

I didn't check what was happening with transactions though. It is, however, wired into the AS 7 org.jboss.jboss-transaction-spi module.

Steve C


On 03/09/2012, at 6:12 PM, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at redhat.com> wrote:

> I'm just catching up with that discussion and haven't fully read it, but 
> one important thing to note is that although the invocation might work, 
> the tx and security support won't be propagated from the remote client 
> (on AS7) to the invocation which ends up on older versions of AS.
> 
> 
> -Jaikiran
> On Monday 03 September 2012 01:37 PM, Stephen Coy wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> For interest sake last week I worked out a solution to a user's problem related to calling remote EJBs from JBoss 7 that were hosted on older versions of JBoss.
>> 
>> See<https://community.jboss.org/thread/204513?tstart=0>  for the background.
>> 
>> Anyway, I have since worked out that I could bundle this up in a module so that clients would only need to add a jboss-deployment-structure.xml to their apps to get this functionality:
>> 
>> <jboss-deployment-structure>
>>     <deployment>
>>         <dependencies>
>>             <module name="org.jboss.ejb-client.compatibility" />
>>         </dependencies>
>>     </deployment>
>> </jboss-deployment-structure>
>> 
>> I've incorporated the module into my clone of the current JBoss master branch at<https://github.com/sfcoy/jboss-as/tree/ejb-client.compatibility>.
>> 
>> Should I send a pull request for this?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Stephen Coy
>> 
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