Session Beans

Stateless Session Beans

Life-cycle state diagram of the stateless session bean

Figure B-6. Life-cycle state diagram of the stateless session bean

Creation and removal of stateless session beans

Figure B-7. Creation and removal of stateless session beans

Table B-2 summarizes the operations that are legal for a stateless session bean. The allowed operations are the same for both EJB 2.0 and 1.1, except for the SessionContext methods getEJBLocalHome() and getEJBLocalObject(), which are specific to EJB 2.0.

Table B-2. Allowed operations for stateless session beans

Method

Allowed operations

 

Container-managed transactions

Bean-managed transactions

ejbCreate()

ejbRemove()

EntityContext methods:

getEJBHome()

getEJBLocalHome()

getEJBObject()

getEJBLocalObject()

JNDI ENC contexts:

Properties: java:comp/env

EntityContext methods:

getEJBHome()

getEJBLocalHome()

getEJBObject()

getEJBLocalObject()

getUserTransaction()

JNDI ENC contexts:

Properties: java:comp/env

Business methods

EntityContext methods:

getEJHome()

getEJBLocalHome()

getCallerPrincipal()

isCallerInRole()

getRollbackOnly()

setRollbackOnly()

getEJBObject()

getEJBLocalObject()

JNDI ENC contexts:

Properties: java:comp/env

Resource managers: java:comp/env/jdbc

EJB references: java:comp/env/ejb

EntityContext methods:

getEJHome()

getEJBLocalHome()

getCallerPrincipal() ...

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