The JBoss Integration Plug-in for IntelliJ IDEA, Part 3.

Abstract

This paper is the third in a series of papers that describe a new plug-in for enabling the integration of the IntelliJ IDEA IDE with the JBoss application server. The JBoss plug-in was first conceived and implemented by Martin Fuhrer at Fuhrer Engineering.Part 1 discussed how to download and install the new JBoss plug-in, allowing the JBoss application server to integrate into the IntelliJ IDEA IDE development environment. It then demonstrated how to create a project with EJBs and web modules.Part 2 discussed how to create a session bean in our project. The session bean contained the implementation for the functionality that we wish to expose to the client. This paper continues to build upon our project by describing how to add a servlet for accessing the EJB methods implemented previously, and then how to create an application module for deployment to the JBoss application server. CREATING A SERVLETThis section describes how to create a servlet that will make use of the EJB that was created in part 2 of this paper. One of the critical elements will be setting up the execution environment of the servlet in order to make the EJB available. This is accomplished by declaring a reference in the web module's deployment descriptor to the EJB's home interface. Once again, IntelliJ IDE wizards provide a GUI for the synthesis of the needed resources. During runtime, the servlet will use JNDI to look up the interface and create an object that can be used to invoke the EJB methods.