Sams Teach Yourself J2EE™ in 21 Days

Exercise

To extend your knowledge of the Message-driven beans, try the following exercise.

1. Extend the Agency case study. Add a Message-driven bean that receives a message from the AdvertiseJob Session bean when a new job is advertised. The Message-driven bean should search through all the applicants to find those suitable to be considered for the job. To be considered for a job, the applicant must match the job's:

   • Location

   • At least one skill

   If the applicant has all the required skills set exactMatch to true; otherwise, false.

   All applicants that match at least one skill must be added to the Matched table.

   Don't forget to create a JMS queue for the messages (you can't use the same queue as the one used in the Applicant example).

   Add some new jobs and ...