How to configure an ejb both local and remote on Websphere

Question

I have a stateless EJB SessionBean with bith @local and @remote annotations. The code is working fine in weblogic server. However on deploying it to Websphere it gives following exception.

bm.ejs.container.EJBConfigurationException: BUSINESS_INTERFACE_DESIGNATED_AS_BOTH_REMOTE_AND_LOCAL: 'oracle.odc.session.ODCSession'

The oracle.odc.session.ODCSession business interface class cannot be both remote and local.

Is there any workaround available to make it work without writing seperate EJBs for remote and local invocation?

Answer 1

One workaround is to have a base interface with the method declarations & then have a local interface & a remote inteface, which extend the base interface, e.g.

public interface MyEJBBase {
    public void foo();
    public void bar();
}

@Local
public interface MyEJBLocal extends MyEJBBase {}

@Remote
public interface MyEJBRemote extends MyEJBBase {}