Local stateless EJB injection within singleton startup EJB

Question

is this possible somehow? Following scenario:

• statelesse local EJB with name A
• singleton startup EJB with name B
• B contains a reference to A

I tried but my application server (WAS) fails on application startup with the error that A was not found. The console log also makes clear that A was not started at the moment the B is loaded but some other stateless EJBs are started before B. Making A also a singleton EJB and letting B depond on A via annotation @DependsOn({"A"}) produced an error, too, stating that dependent bean A was not found. Using A in a web module works fine.

Any ideas what' I do wrong? Thx for any help! Steffen Harbich

Answer 1

If A is in a different module/application as B, then you need to ensure that the module of A is configured to start before the module of B. You can either use initialize-in-order in application.xml, or use module starting weights in the admin console.