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I'm developing a J2EE web application using Struts, and EJB's.<br />
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My question is that I have not included any ejb references in my web.xml file that any of my war classes are using, nor did I enter any references in my session ejb's xml file who reference various CMP beans. &nbsp;Am I losing anything by not doing this, as the application works fine omitting these references. &nbsp;<br />
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I'm using XDoclet tags and never bothered using the references. &nbsp;I don't know what the benefits are as of right now to me it seems adding them in just adds more maintenace work.<br />
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FYI in my dev environment I have an exploded war file and an ear file that contains all my ejb's and related classes.<br />
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In my test env, I have one ear file and all works fine.<br />
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Thanks
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I'm developing a J2EE web application using Struts, and EJB's.

My question is that I have not included any ejb references in my web.xml file that any of my war classes are using, nor did I enter any references in my session ejb's xml file who reference various CMP beans.  Am I losing anything by not doing this, as the application works fine omitting these references.  

I'm using XDoclet tags and never bothered using the references.  I don't know what the benefits are as of right now to me it seems adding them in just adds more maintenace work.

FYI in my dev environment I have an exploded war file and an ear file that contains all my ejb's and related classes.

In my test env, I have one ear file and all works fine.

Thanks

Is adding your ejb's to the web.xml or other ejb references to ejb-jar.xml files important, if so why?

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