Does Resin Support EJB remoting?
The short answer is no. The longer answer is that Resin supports Hessian for remoting. And, in about 20 lines of code, you can expose all @Stateless/@Remote beans as remote services using the Hessian protocol using CDI and Servlet 3.0, which are part of Resin and part of Java EE Web Profile (as Resin 4 is a Java EE Web Profile certified application server).
Hessian (now Hessian 2) predates many other forms of remoting and is a [http://daniel.gredler.net/2008/01/07/java-remoting-protocol-benchmarks/ wicked fast, binary protocol] (faster than CORBA, RMI, SOAP, XML-RPC, etc). You could think of Hessian as a high performance binary JSON. Hessian has been ported to many languages. Hessian is a remoting framework and a flexible Java serialization framework.
You can expose any bean as a Hessian remote bean quite easily. Hessian has been around for 10 years, and is very solid. (Both Hessian and Resin are development and maintained by Caucho).
Resin 4 documentation does not have Hessian documentation yet, but Hessian usage has not changed in years. You can find a good tutorial on getting started with Hessian from the [http://www.caucho.com/resin-3.0/protocols/hessian.xtp Resin 3 documentation]. I’ve tried these tutorial steps in Resin 4 and the tutorial works as advertised.
Resin 4 is Java EE Web Profile certified as such it does not support CORBA, EJB remoting, etc. However Resin does support Java Dependency Injection (CDI), which allows you to easily find beans with certain annotations. What follows is a simple example that finds all @Stateless beans that have @Remote interfaces and automatically exposes those beans as remote hessian objects.
To learn more go to our wiki for Resin 4 Java EE WebProfile application server.