Recently I was working on porting my company application to wildfly. We were stuck at an EJB exception when we tried to access any EJB method. We were accessing EJB from Wildfly application itself.
2020-08-29 13:26:20,833 [ServerService Thread Pool -- 102] ERROR {DataUpdaterImpl.java:1903} [] - EJBCLIENT000079: Unable to discover destination for request for EJB StatelessEJBLocator for "A/B/TestEJB", view is interface com.A.B.Test, affinity is None
javax.ejb.NoSuchEJBException: EJBCLIENT000079: Unable to discover destination for request for EJB StatelessEJBLocator for "ctools/ctservices/UniqueIdGeneratorEJB", view is interface com.tk20.ejb.api.util.UniqueIdGenerator, affinity is None
at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientInvocationContext.getResult(EJBClientInvocationContext.java:622) ~[jboss-ejb-client-4.0.33.Final.jar!/:4.0.33.Final]
at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientInvocationContext.getResult(EJBClientInvocationContext.java:553) ~[jboss-ejb-client-4.0.33.Final.jar!/:4.0.33.Final]
at org.jboss.ejb.protocol.remote.RemotingEJBClientInterceptor.handleInvocationResult(RemotingEJBClientInterceptor.java:57) ~[jboss-ejb-client-4.0.33.Final.jar!/:4.0.33.Final]
at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientInvocationContext.getResult(EJBClientInvocationContext.java:624) ~[jboss-ejb-client-4.0.33.Final.jar!/:4.0.33.Final]
at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientInvocationContext.getResult(EJBClientInvocationContext.java:553) ~[jboss-ejb-client-4.0.33.Final.jar!/:4.0.33.Final]
at org.jboss.ejb.client.TransactionPostDiscoveryInterceptor.handleInvocationResult(TransactionPostDiscoveryInterceptor.java:148) ~[jboss-ejb-client-4.0.33.Final.jar!/:4.0.33.Final]
at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientInvocationContext.getResult(EJBClientInvocationContext.java:624) ~[jboss-ejb-client-4.0.33.Final.jar!/:4.0.33.Final]
at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientInvocationContext.getResult(EJBClientInvocationContext.java:553) ~[jboss-ejb-client-4.0.33.Final.jar!/:4.0.33.Final]
at org.jboss.ejb.client.DiscoveryEJBClientInterceptor.handleInvocationResult(DiscoveryEJBClientInterceptor.java:137) ~[jboss-ejb-client-4.0.33.Final.jar!/:4.0.33.Final]
at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientInvocationContext.getResult(EJBClientInvocationContext.java:624) ~[jboss-ejb-client-4.0.33.Final.jar!/:4.0.33.Final]
at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientInvocationContext.getResult(EJBClientInvocationContext.java:553) ~[jboss-ejb-client-4.0.33.Final.jar!/:4.0.33.Final]
at org.jboss.ejb.client.NamingEJBClientInterceptor.handleInvocationResult(NamingEJBClientInterceptor.java:87) ~[jboss-ejb-client-4.0.33.Final.jar!/:4.0.33.Final]
at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientInvocationContext.getResult(EJBClientInvocationContext.java:624) ~[jboss-ejb-client-4.0.33.Final.jar!/:4.0.33.Final]
at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientInvocationContext.getResult(EJBClientInvocationContext.java:553) ~[jboss-ejb-client-4.0.33.Final.jar!/:4.0.33.Final]
at org.jboss.ejb.client.TransactionInterceptor.handleInvocationResult(TransactionInterceptor.java:212) ~[jboss-ejb-client-4.0.33.Final.jar!/:4.0.33.Final]
at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientInvocationContext.getResult(EJBClientInvocationContext.java:624) ~[jboss-ejb-client-4.0.33.Final.jar!/:4.0.33.Final]
at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientInvocationContext.getResult(EJBClientInvocationContext.java:553) ~[jboss-ejb-client-4.0.33.Final.jar!/:4.0.33.Final]
at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientInvocationContext.awaitResponse(EJBClientInvocationContext.java:995) ~[jboss-ejb-client-4.0.33.Final.jar!/:4.0.33.Final]
at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBInvocationHandler.invoke(EJBInvocationHandler.java:191) ~[jboss-ejb-client-4.0.33.Final.jar!/:4.0.33.Final]
at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBInvocationHandler.invoke(EJBInvocationHandler.java:125) ~[jboss-ejb-client-4.0.33.Final.jar!/:4.0.33.Final]
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy124.getUniqueIdString(Unknown Source) ~[?:?]
This error took a lot of time to fix. There was no information available on internet. The problem is the way JNDI lookup is done. We were looking up "ejb:A/B/TestEJB" in JNDI. The lookup was successful but method invocation failed. The problem was fixed after changing the JNDI lookup to "java:global/A/B/Test".
The remote lookup for "java:global/A/B/Test" in JNDI failed. So for remote invocation the JNDI lookup have to be done without any qualifier that is "/A/B/Test". After doing this remote EJB calls also started working fine.
The local lookup and remote lookup need to be done differently.
Please refer to following post for accessing EJBs from remote machine.https://blog.bigdatawithjasvant.com/2021/06/fixing-jboss-local-user.html