CHAPTER 8
Callbacks, Timer Service, and Authorization
In the previous chapter, you learned that session beans are container-managed components. They live in an EJB container, which wraps business code behind the scenes with several services (dependency injection, transaction management, etc.). Three of these services are life-cycle management, scheduling, and authorization.
Life cycle means that a session bean goes through a predefined set of state transitions. Depending on the type of your bean (stateless, stateful, singleton), the life cycle will consist of different states. Each time the container changes the life-cycle state, it can invoke ...
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