We've put together the first of hopefully many screencasts to walk you through various aspects of using OpenEJB. This screencast shows how you can turn the plain, non-javaee version of Eclipse into an EJB testing machine. The tutorial walks you through installing Eclipse, adding OpenEJB to your project's classpath, and creating a simple EJB with a JUnit unit test.

EJB Unit Testing with Eclipse and OpenEJB

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The Apache OpenEJB team is excited to announce the release of OpenEJB 3.1.1.

This release includes some great enhancements for the embedded testing scenarios and general EJB programming. Notable improvements include:

- Dependency injection for test cases and clients of the embedded ejb container via new @LocalClient annotation.
- Support for annotating the same interface as @Local, @Remote and @WebService making it possible to ex... (more)

The OpenEJB 3.1.1 binaries have been spun have gone through some rigorous testing and should be available in the next day or two. Check back tomorrow for some nice new OpenEJB 3.1.1 binaries and some great new features like alternative deployment descriptors for testing, test case injection, secure webservices, global openejb namespace, several new examples and more.

Recently we added the facility to use the mappedName attribute from a @Stateful, @Stateless or @Singleton annotation to add a global JNDI name for your bean. This is pretty simple to use, simply add the mapped name to your bean like so:

@Stateless(mappedName="MyCalculatorBean")
public class CalculatorImpl implements CalculatorRemote, CalculatorLocal {

	public int sum(int add1, int add2) {
		return add1+add2;
	}

	public int multiply(int mul1,... (more)

          

To ease the burden in looking up things from OpenEJB's internal JNDI tree, we've added a new "openejb" JNDI URL prefix which can be used in any context to do lookups.

The following will work in a TestCase or EJB or any code running in the same VM as the EJB Container.

InitialContext context = new InitialContext();

TransactionManager tm = (TransactionManager) context.lookup("openejb:TransactionManager");
DataSource dataSource = (DataSource) ... (more)