Generating Spring EJBs with XDoclet

When using a Spring baseclass as superclass for your EJB (e.g. AbstractStatelessSessionBean), XDoclet doesn't recognize such a class to be an EJB, so it is simply ignored by the "ejbdoclet" task (i.e. no code generation).

Two possible ways to fix this:

• explicitly implement the EJB interface in your EJB:

  
  public class MySessionBean
      extends AbstractStatelessSessionBean
      implements javax.ejb.SessionBean
  




• add Spring to XDoclet's classpath, so XDoclet is able to recognize that your class actually implements an EJB interface:

  
  

  
  <taskdef name="ejbdoclet"
              classname="xdoclet.modules.ejb.EjbDocletTask"
              classpath="[XDoclet and Spring libs]"/>
  

Since the first solution introduces redundant code to your class, I usually take the second approach.

In Maven, add the following code to your pom.xml:

...
<plugin>
  <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
  <artifactId>xdoclet-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-remoting</artifactId>
      <version>1.2.8</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
  <executions>
    ...
  </executions>
</plugin>
...