# Simplest Possible, Annotation-Less EJB 3.1

The Bean is just a POJO - without any dependencies to libraries etc: 
public class MessageFacade {    public String hello(){        return "Working without annotations";    }}
You will need to specify everything in XML:
<ejb-jar xmlns = "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"         version = "3.1"         xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"         xsi:schemaLocation = "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/ejb-jar_3_1.xsd">   <enterprise-beans>    <session>        <ejb-name>MessageFacade</ejb-name>        <local-bean/>        <ejb-class>com.abien.patterns.business.annotationless.boundary.MessageFacade</ejb-class>        <session-type>Stateless</session-type>    </session>   </enterprise-beans></ejb-jar>Now you can use already the no-interface view Bean and inject it into a servlet (JSF backing beans, interceptors, other beans):
public class FrontController extends HttpServlet {    @EJB    MessageFacade facade;//...
With XML (ejb-jar.xml) you could develop the whole application without even having the EJB 3.X API in your classpath... This sample was deployed as a WAR. The ejb-jar.xml has to be placed into WEB-INF.

The project (AnnotationLessEJB31) was pushed into: http://kenai.com/projects/javaee-patterns/. The code was tested with Netbeans 6.7 and Glassfish v3 Prelude. Netbeans 6.7, however,  does not support EJB 3.1 directly. You will have to copy the ejb-jar.xml from src/java/conf into build/web/WEB-INF/ manually or change the ANT-script.[Its one of the introductory samples (Chapter 1) from the "Real World Java EE Patterns" book]