[jboss-dev] Howto debug jndi lookup issues?

[Thomas Diesler]

Folks,

java.lang.ClassCastException: javax.naming.Reference cannot be cast to 
org.jboss.test.osgi.jbosgi58.ejb.StatelessBean
     at 
org.jboss.test.osgi.jbosgi58.OSGI58TestCase.testEJB(OSGI58TestCase.java:54)

a JNDI client lookup may fail for various reasons . AFAIK, the above CCE 
happens because there is some calss missing on the client classpath. 
JNDI gives up internally and simply returns the reference.

To solve the problem I could do

<dependency>
<groupId>org.jboss.jbossas</groupId>
<artifactId>jboss-as-client</artifactId>
<version>6.0.0.M1</version>
<type>pom</type>
</dependency>

but this gives me an insanely big dependency tree 
(http://pastebin.com/m3776fc85). I'd much rather find out, what exactly 
is missing and use a client that contains just that.

Is there a way to debug these kind of JNDI client issues?

cheers
-thomas

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Thomas Diesler
JBoss OSGi Lead
JBoss, a division of Red Hat
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