BEA® WebLogic Platform 7

Chapter 23. EJB Best Practices

In This Chapter

• Best Practices for Session Beans

• Best Practices for Entity Beans

• Handling Transactions in EJBs

• Best Practices for EJB Security

• Best Practices for Coding Standard Interfaces

• MDB Best Practices

Best Practices for Session Beans

The following sections describe some of the best practices to keep in mind while coding stateless and stateful session beans.

Optimizing JNDI Lookups

Because the Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) lookup can be an expensive operation, caching all the onetime initialization procedures in the session bean’s setSessionContext() method is the recommended practice. The EJB container calls the session bean’s setSessionContext() to associate a session bean instance with its context maintained ...