Testing EJB Consumption in NetBeans 6 Visual Web Projects

Test a version of NetBeans 6 Visual Web trunk later than 2007-06-07T22:30 (UTC). The functional spec is the same as for Creator 2 Update 1 release.

Server-side Setup

First, set up a server-side EJB service. For example, deploy the sample converter-client.ear to Sun AS 9.1. Download the client-side jar from the app server and save it. As of 2007-06-07, if you use Sun AS 9.1 you need to manually extract the ejb-client-ic.jar containing the EJB client stubs from the downloaded app-client-ic.jar.

IDE Test Cases

Scenario 1:

• Create new visual web JSF project
• Services Tab->Enterprise Java Beans->Add Set of Session EJBs
  • Use the ejb-client-ic.jar as the client jar file.
  • Press "Next", "Finish" and wait while the IDE generates wrapper jars.
• Expand Services Tab->Enterprise Java Beans
• Drag and drop or invoke context menu item for new Session Bean and activate "Add To Page"
• Build rest of app by adding text field, group message, and submit button, etc. Add call to session bean wrapper in code.
• Press "Run" to build and deploy to Sun AS 9.1
• Test app in browser.

Other Items to Test

In Services Tab->Enterprise Java Beans:

• Export EJB Sets
• Import EJB Sets

In Services Tab->Enterprise Java Beans->'An-EJB-Group-Name'

• Remove
• Refresh
• Modify
• Configure Methods

In Services Tab->Enterprise Java Beans->'An-EJB-Group-Name'->'A-Session-Bean'

• Add To Page = adds a Session Bean wrapper
• Properties

In Services Tab->Enterprise Java Beans->'An-EJB-Group-Name'->'A-Session-Bean'->'A-Method'

• Add To Page = adds a TableDataProvider
• Properties

Updates

• 2007-06-11 Added more test info.
• 2007-06-07 Scenario 1.

-- EdwinGoei