ejb-remote: Remote EJB Client Example

The ejb-remote quickstart uses EJB and JNDI to demonstrate how to access an EJB, deployed to WildFly, from a remote Java client application.

What is it?

The ejb-remote quickstart shows how to access an EJB from a remote Java client application. It demonstrates the use of EJB and JNDI in WildFly Application Server.

There are two components to this example:

A server side component:

The server component is comprised of a stateful EJB and a stateless EJB. It provides both an EJB JAR that is deployed to the server and a JAR file containing the remote business interfaces required by the remote client application.
A remote client application that accesses the server component.

The remote client application depends on the remote business interfaces from the server component. This application looks up the stateless and stateful beans via JNDI and invokes a number of methods on them.

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System Requirements

The application this project produces is designed to be run on WildFly Application Server 32 or later.

All you need to build this project is Java 11.0 (Java SDK 11) or later and Maven 3.6.0 or later. See Configure Maven to Build and Deploy the Quickstarts to make sure you are configured correctly for testing the quickstarts.

Use of the WILDFLY_HOME and QUICKSTART_HOME Variables

In the following instructions, replace WILDFLY_HOME with the actual path to your WildFly installation. The installation path is described in detail here: Use of WILDFLY_HOME and JBOSS_HOME Variables.

When you see the replaceable variable QUICKSTART_HOME, replace it with the path to the root directory of all of the quickstarts.

Building and running the quickstart application with a WildFly server distribution

Add the Authorized Application User

This quickstart uses secured application interfaces and requires that you create the following application user to access the running application.

UserName	Realm	Password	Roles
quickstartUser	ApplicationRealm	quickstartPwd1!

UserName

Realm

Password

Roles

quickstartUser

ApplicationRealm

quickstartPwd1!

To add the application user, open a terminal and type the following command:

$ WILDFLY_HOME/bin/add-user.sh -a -u 'quickstartUser' -p 'quickstartPwd1!'

Note	For Windows, use the `WILDFLY_HOME\bin\add-user.bat` script.

Start the WildFly Standalone Server

Open a terminal and navigate to the root of the WildFly directory.
Start the WildFly server with the default profile by typing the following command.
```
$ WILDFLY_HOME/bin/standalone.sh 
```
Note
For Windows, use the WILDFLY_HOME\bin\standalone.bat script.

Build and Deploy the Quickstart

Make sure WildFly server is started.
Open a terminal and navigate to the root directory of this quickstart.
Type the following command to build the quickstart.
```
$ mvn clean package
```
Type the following command to deploy the quickstart.
```
$ mvn wildfly:deploy
```

This deploys the ejb-remote/target/ejb-remote.war to the running instance of the server.

You should see a message in the server log indicating that the archive deployed successfully.

Run the Integration Tests

This quickstart includes integration tests, which are located under the src/test/ directory. The integration tests verify that the quickstart runs correctly when deployed on the server.

Follow these steps to run the integration tests.

Make sure WildFly server is started.
Make sure the quickstart is deployed.
Type the following command to run the verify goal with the integration-testing profile activated.
```
$ mvn verify -Pintegration-testing 
```

Investigate the Console Output

When the client application is run by the EJBRemoteIT tests, it performs the following steps:

Obtains a stateless session bean instance.
Sends method invocations to the stateless bean to add two numbers, and then displays the result.
Sends a second invocation to the stateless bean subtract two numbers, and then displays the result.
Obtains a stateful session bean instance.
Sends several method invocations to the stateful bean to increment a field in the bean, displaying the result each time.
Sends several method invocations to the stateful bean to decrement a field in the bean, displaying the result each time.

The following output is displayed in the terminal window:

Obtained a remote stateless calculator for invocation
Adding 204 and 340 via the remote stateless calculator deployed on the server
Remote calculator returned sum = 544
Subtracting 2332 from 3434 via the remote stateless calculator deployed on the server
Remote calculator returned difference = 1102
Obtained a remote stateful counter for invocation
Counter will now be incremented 5 times
Incrementing counter
Count after increment is 1
Incrementing counter
Count after increment is 2
Incrementing counter
Count after increment is 3
Incrementing counter
Count after increment is 4
Incrementing counter
Count after increment is 5
Counter will now be decremented 5 times
Decrementing counter
Count after decrement is 4
Decrementing counter
Count after decrement is 3
Decrementing counter
Count after decrement is 2
Decrementing counter
Count after decrement is 1
Decrementing counter
Count after decrement is 0

Logging statements have been removed from this output here to make it clearer.

Undeploy the Quickstart

When you are finished testing the quickstart, follow these steps to undeploy the archive.

Make sure WildFly server is started.
Open a terminal and navigate to the root directory of this quickstart.
Type this command to undeploy the archive:
```
$ mvn wildfly:undeploy
```

Building and running the quickstart application with provisioned WildFly server

Instead of using a standard WildFly server distribution, you can alternatively provision a WildFly server to deploy and run the quickstart, by activating the Maven profile named provisioned-server when building the quickstart:

$ mvn clean package -Pprovisioned-server

The provisioned WildFly server, with the quickstart deployed, can then be found in the target/server directory, and its usage is similar to a standard server distribution, with the simplification that there is never the need to specify the server configuration to be started.

The quickstart user should be added before running the provisioned server:

$ target/server/bin/add-user.sh -a -u 'quickstartUser' -p 'quickstartPwd1!'

Note	For Windows, use the `WILDFLY_HOME\bin\add-user.bat` script.

The server provisioning functionality is provided by the WildFly Maven Plugin, and you may find its configuration in the quickstart pom.xml:

        <profile>
            <id>provisioned-server</id>
            <build>
                <plugins>
                    <plugin>
                        <groupId>org.wildfly.plugins</groupId>
                        <artifactId>wildfly-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                        <configuration>
                            <feature-packs>
                                <feature-pack>
                                    <location>org.wildfly:wildfly-galleon-pack:${version.server}</location>
                                </feature-pack>
                            </feature-packs>
                            <layers>...</layers>
                            <!-- deploys the quickstart on root web context -->
                            <name>ROOT.war</name>
                        </configuration>
                        <executions>
                            <execution>
                                <goals>
                                    <goal>package</goal>
                                </goals>
                            </execution>
                        </executions>
                    </plugin>
                    ...
                </plugins>
            </build>
        </profile>

Note	Since the plugin configuration above deploys quickstart on root web context of the provisioned server, the URL to access the application should not have the `/ejb-remote` path segment after `HOST:PORT`.

Run the Integration Tests with a provisioned server

The integration tests included with this quickstart, which verify that the quickstart runs correctly, may also be run with a provisioned server.

Follow these steps to run the integration tests.

Make sure the server is provisioned.

$ mvn clean package -Pprovisioned-server

Add the quickstart user:

$ target/server/bin/add-user.sh -a -u 'quickstartUser' -p 'quickstartPwd1!'

Start the WildFly provisioned server, this time using the WildFly Maven Plugin, which is recommended for testing due to simpler automation. The path to the provisioned server should be specified using the jbossHome system property.
```
$ mvn wildfly:start -DjbossHome=target/server 
```
Type the following command to run the verify goal with the integration-testing profile activated, and specifying the quickstart’s URL using the server.host system property, which for a provisioned server by default is http://localhost:8080.
```
$ mvn verify -Pintegration-testing -Dserver.host=http://localhost:8080 
```
Shutdown the WildFly provisioned server, this time using the WildFly Maven Plugin too.
```
$ mvn wildfly:shutdown
```

Building and running the quickstart application with OpenShift

Build the WildFly Source-to-Image (S2I) Quickstart to OpenShift with Helm Charts

On OpenShift, the S2I build with Apache Maven uses an openshift Maven profile to provision a WildFly server, deploy and run the quickstart in OpenShift environment.

The server provisioning functionality is provided by the WildFly Maven Plugin, and you may find its configuration in the quickstart pom.xml:

        <profile>
            <id>openshift</id>
            <build>
                <plugins>
                    <plugin>
                        <groupId>org.wildfly.plugins</groupId>
                        <artifactId>wildfly-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                        <configuration>
                            <feature-packs>
                                <feature-pack>
                                    <location>org.wildfly:wildfly-galleon-pack:${version.server}</location>
                                </feature-pack>
                                <feature-pack>
                                    <location>org.wildfly.cloud:wildfly-cloud-galleon-pack:${version.pack.cloud}</location>
                                </feature-pack>
                            </feature-packs>
                            <layers>...</layers>
                            <name>ROOT.war</name>
                        </configuration>
                        <executions>
                            <execution>
                                <goals>
                                    <goal>package</goal>
                                </goals>
                            </execution>
                        </executions>
                    </plugin>
                    ...
                </plugins>
            </build>
        </profile>

You may note that unlike the provisioned-server profile it uses the cloud feature pack which enables a configuration tuned for OpenShift environment.

Getting Started with WildFly for OpenShift and Helm Charts

This section contains the basic instructions to build and deploy this quickstart to WildFly for OpenShift or WildFly for OpenShift Online using Helm Charts.

Prerequisites

You must be logged in OpenShift and have an oc client to connect to OpenShift
Helm must be installed to deploy the backend on OpenShift.

Once you have installed Helm, you need to add the repository that provides Helm Charts for WildFly.

$ helm repo add wildfly https://docs.wildfly.org/wildfly-charts/
"wildfly" has been added to your repositories
$ helm search repo wildfly
NAME                    CHART VERSION   APP VERSION     DESCRIPTION
wildfly/wildfly         ...             ...            Build and Deploy WildFly applications on OpenShift
wildfly/wildfly-common  ...             ...            A library chart for WildFly-based applications

Deploy the WildFly Source-to-Image (S2I) Quickstart to OpenShift with Helm Charts

Log in to your OpenShift instance using the oc login command. The backend will be built and deployed on OpenShift with a Helm Chart for WildFly.

Navigate to the root directory of this quickstart and run the following command:

$ helm install ejb-remote -f charts/helm.yaml wildfly/wildfly --wait --timeout=10m0s
NAME: ejb-remote
...
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 1

This command will return once the application has successfully deployed. In case of a timeout, you can check the status of the application with the following command in another terminal:

oc get deployment ejb-remote

The Helm Chart for this quickstart contains all the information to build an image from the source code using S2I on Java 17:

build:
  uri: https://github.com/wildfly/quickstart.git
  ref: 32.x
  contextDir: ejb-remote
deploy:
  replicas: 1

This will create a new deployment on OpenShift and deploy the application.

If you want to see all the configuration elements to customize your deployment you can use the following command:

$ helm show readme wildfly/wildfly

Get the URL of the route to the deployment.

$ oc get route ejb-remote -o jsonpath="{.spec.host}"

Access the application in your web browser using the displayed URL.

Note	The Maven profile named `openshift` is used by the Helm chart to provision the server with the quickstart deployed on the root web context, and thus the application should be accessed with the URL without the `/ejb-remote` path segment after `HOST:PORT`.

Run the Integration Tests with OpenShift

The integration tests included with this quickstart, which verify that the quickstart runs correctly, may also be run with the quickstart running on OpenShift.

Note	The integration tests expect a deployed application, so make sure you have deployed the quickstart on OpenShift before you begin.

Run the integration tests using the following command to run the verify goal with the integration-testing profile activated and the proper URL:

$ mvn verify -Pintegration-testing -Dserver.host=https://$(oc get route ejb-remote --template='{{ .spec.host }}')

Note	The tests are using SSL to connect to the quickstart running on OpenShift. So you need the certificates to be trusted by the machine the tests are run from.

Undeploy the WildFly Source-to-Image (S2I) Quickstart from OpenShift with Helm Charts

$ helm uninstall ejb-remote