How to get the Client ip address in an EJB3 Interceptor?

Question

Often it's useful for Auditing or security purposes to get the IP Address of the client making a remote EJB3 Call. This information is not readily available in the Context of an EJB3 Bean. Here's a hack to be able to achieve this in JBoss 4.x.

Answer 1

There is an answer on this page https://community.jboss.org/wiki/HowToGetTheClientIpAddressInAnEJB3Interceptor?_sscc=t

Basically it uses the thread name to obtain the ip address as each call is launched in its own thread...