EJB container services
This page discusses - EJB container services
This page discusses - EJB container servicesEJB container services
The EJB container is a container that deploys EJB automatically when
Web Server is started. All of the entity objects live in container during its
creation to removal. We can deploy more than one entity beans in a container. When
the entity bean is deployed in the container the work of the container is to
provide a home interface for the entity bean. This home interface allows a client
in removing, creating and finding entity objects. It also helps in executing
home interface business methods that are not specific to a particular entity bean object.
JNDI(Java Naming and Directory Interface) is the standard interface by which the
client can look up the entity bean's home interface. The table given below illustrates the EJB container
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Services
Description
Life Cycle Management
JRun is an application server that works for building and deploying server-side Java
applications. The role of JRun in the container service is to automatically
increase and reduce the number of available bean instances so that there
is not much load on the current server.
Security
Security is one of the most important
feature of EJB. Since EJB support authentication and role-driven access control.
Example below show how this feature is implemented:-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE sun-application PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Application Server 9.0 Java EE Application 5.0//EN" "http://www.sun.com/software/appserver/dtds/sun-application_5_0-0.dtd">
<sun-application>
<security-role-mapping>
<role-name>USERS</role-name>
<group-name>bank_users</group-name>
</security-role-mapping>
</sun-application>
Session
management
The Server JRun maintains state for stateful session beans and entity
beans. The state for session bean is maintained through passivation and activation callback
methods. while for the entity beans it is maintained by entity-bean callback methods).
Transaction
By the word transaction we mean a unit of work that must
be executed in one piece. EJB provides 2 type of transaction:-
Container-managed transactions:-These type of transaction are the
transaction in which the container begins and commits transactions on behalf of the bean.
Bean-managed transactions:-In this type of transaction we have complete control over
transactions. This control can be achieved either from the client or from the bean itself.
