Borland® JBuilder™ Developer’s Guide

Writing a Client

The best way to learn how to use EJBs is to look at some examples. The process for a client to connect to a Bean is rather simple. For a client to work with an EJB, the client must perform the following:

• Get a reference to a JNDI server.

• Get a reference to the desired Bean’s home object.

• Get a reference to a remote object by calling the create() method or a finder method.

• Invoke the desired business method.

Now we’ll create a client that communicates to a weather Session Bean. This Bean simply connects to a Bean and returns to the client the current temperature. The following steps are required to create a client to connect to the weather Bean:

1.	Create a client application: package sessionbean; class WeatherClient { public ...