javax.naming.NoInitialContextException while Running the EJB client

[mukesh.sheoran]

I am running a simples EJB program using NetBeans.. server GlassFish. I created the session bean, home and remote interface and then deployed it I deployed successfully. then I wrote this client class and tried to invoked the Bean method. while running the class the I am getting this exception

javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file: java.naming.factory.initial
at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:645)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:288)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getURLOrDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:325)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:392)
at Examples.HelloClient.invoke(HelloClient.java:2
at Examples.HelloClient.main(HelloClient.java:19)

Client Class code is :

package Examples;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject;

/**
*
* @author mukesh
*/
public class HelloClient {

public static void main(String [] args){
new HelloClient().invoke();

}

public void invoke(){

try{
Context ic = new InitialContext();
Object o = ic.lookup("HelloWorldBean");
HelloWorldRemoteHome home = (HelloWorldRemoteHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(o, HelloWorldRemoteHome.class);

HelloWorldRemote remote = home.create();
System.out.println("We run our first EJB>>>"+remote.invokeHello());
}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}


Please help me out.. Thanks in advance

[bftanase]

With EJB 3.0 you can use annotations. Have you tried it?

The code should look smth like this...

[mukesh.sheoran]

No, I have not tried this as I am working on a EJB 2.0 project... Can Any body please suggest me smthng with EJB 2.0

[smoczyna]

For EJB2 you need to build deployment descriptor
try this http://www.vipan.com/htdocs/ejb-jar.xml.html