Obtaining Context from an embedded Glassfish 3.1

Question

Does anyone now a way to obtain server Context using Embeddable API (using org.glassfish.embeddable.GlassFish, not javax.ejb.embeddable.EJBContainer)? It would be possible if there's a way to obtain EJBContainer from a running Glassfish, but I can't find even the list of services available for lookup.

Answer 1

Here's a workaround - we can obtain InitialContext as an external client. For the full explanation check EJB_FAQ . This way at least remote EJBs could be tested:

So the full example will look like:

//Start GF
GlassFishRuntime gfRuntime = GlassFishRuntime.bootstrap();
GlassFish gf = gfRuntime.newGlassFish();
gf.start();
//Deploy application with EJBs
Deployer deployer = gf.getService(Deployer.class);
String deployedApp = deployer.deploy(new File(...), "--force=true");
//Create InitialContext
Properties props = new Properties();
props.setProperty("java.naming.factory.initial",
    "com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialInitContextFactory");
props.setProperty("java.naming.factory.url.pkgs",
    "com.sun.enterprise.naming");
props.setProperty("java.naming.factory.state",
    "com.sun.corba.ee.impl.presentation.rmi.JNDIStateFactoryImpl");
props.setProperty("org.omg.CORBA.ORBInitialHost", "localhost");
props.setProperty("org.omg.CORBA.ORBInitialPort", "3700");
InitialContext ic = new InitialContext(props);
//Lookup EJBs
ic.lookup(...)
//Stop GF
gf.stop();
gfRuntime.shutdown();
//CORBA stuck thread, have to kill it manually
System.exit(0);

Note there's a System.exit(0) at the end - com.sun.corba.ee.impl.javax.rmi.CORBA.Util.KeepAlive thread is running even after the server stop preventing JVM from stopping...