Accessing Remote Enterprise Beans

Client access to an enterprise bean that implements a remote business interface is accomplished using either dependency injection or JNDI lookup.

Example 14–6 Injecting an Enterprise Bean's Remote Business Interface

To obtain a reference to the remote business interface of an enterprise bean through dependency injection, use the javax.ejb.EJB annotation and specify the enterprise bean's remote business interface name.

@EJB
Example example;

Example 14–7 Looking Up an Enterprise Bean's Remote Business Interface

The obtain a reference to a remote business interface of an enterprise bean using JNDI lookup, use the javax.naming.InitialContext interface's lookup method.

ExampleRemote example = (ExampleRemote)
        InitialContext.lookup("java:global/myApp/ExampleRemote");