Unclear EJB bean JNDI name under Weblogic

Question

I made a small example using weblogic 10.3.6 and EJB 3.0. Define SimpleService class, define weblogic-ejb-jar.xml in order to map SimpleService class to JNDI name, pack it as EJB component in EAR file and deploy on server. Deployment is successful and I can see ejb bean with name SimpleServiceBean. After that using standalone application connect to webloigc server through InitialContext with all necessary environment attributes I try to lookup that bean. I assume that it will be available under name ejb/SimpleService but can't found it under that name and only after I was looking through a JNDI tree name I found out that it available under name SimpleService#ds/base/ejb/SimpleService. Help me to understand what is going on? How should I configure ejb bean in order that it will be available under ejb/SimpleService as it described in the official weblogic manual? Or maybe it's a correct JNDI name for the EJB bean?

My classes and configs are:

ds.base.ejb.SimpleServiceBean:

@Stateless(mappedName = "ServiceBean")
@TransactionAttribute(NEVER)
@ExcludeDefaultInterceptors
@Remote(SimpleService.class)
public class SimpleServiceBean implements SimpleService {
...
}

weblogic-ejb-jar.xml

<weblogic-ejb-jar>
    <weblogic-enterprise-bean>
        <ejb-name>ServiceBean</ejb-name>
        <jndi-name>ejb/ServiceBean</jndi-name>
        <enable-call-by-reference>True</enable-call-by-reference>
    </weblogic-enterprise-bean>
</weblogic-ejb-jar>

application.xml:

<application>
    <display-name>web-app-ear</display-name>
    <module>
        <ejb>app-ejb-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar</ejb>
    </module>
</application>

Then try to get it from standalone:

InitialContext context = new InitialContext(env);
SimpleService simpleService = (SimpleService)          
context.lookup("SimpleService#ds/base/ejb/SimpleService");
assert simpleService != null

Answer 1

there is a good FaQ about the global portal JNDI names on glassfish.org http://glassfish.java.net/javaee5/ejb/EJB_FAQ.html#SessionBeanGlobalJNDINameAssignment It is best practise NOT to assign a jndi name but rely on the ones defined since EE 5 (e.g. SimpleService#ds/base/ejb/SimpleService)

If you add the jndi-name configuration to your weblogic-ejb-jar.xml you could actually make it available as ejb/ServiceBean but you also have to define it "old school" style in ejb-jar.xml. More on the weblogic-ejb-jar.xml can be found http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/web.1111/e13719/ejb_jar_ref.htm

There is also a good overview about the dd in the orcl docs. http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/web.1111/e13719/understanding.htm#EJBPG129

Assuming, that you are working with 10.3.x server version ...