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Enterprise JavaBeans, Fourth Edition
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Enterprise JavaBeans, Fourth Edition

by Sacha Labourey, Bill Burke, Richard Monson-Haefel
June 2004
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
792 pages
23h 17m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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ejbHome( )

CMP and BMP entity beans can declare home methods that perform operations related to the EJB component but that are not specific to an entity bean instance. A home method must have a matching implementation in the bean class with the signature ejbHome< METHOD-NAME >( ).

For example, the Cruise EJB might define a home method that calculates the total revenue in bookings for a specific Cruise:

public interface CruiseHomeLocal extends javax.ejb.EJBLocalHome {

    public CruiseLocal create(String name, ShipLocal ship);
    public double totalReservationRevenue(CruiseLocal cruise);

}

Every home method declared by the home interfaces must have a corresponding ejbHome< METHOD-NAME >( ) in the bean class. For example, the CruiseBean class would have an ejbHomeTotalReservationRevenue( ) method, as shown in the following code:

public abstract class CruiseBean implements javax.ejb.EntityBean {
    public Integer ejbCreate(String name, ShipLocal ship) {
        setName(name);
    }
    ...
    public double ejbHomeTotalReservationRevenue(CruiseLocal cruise) {

        Set reservations = ejbSelectReservations(cruise);
        Iterator it = reservations.iterator( );
        double total = 0;
        while(it.hasNext( )) {
            ReservationLocal res = (ReservationLocal)it.next( );
            total += res.getAmount( );
        }
        return total;

    }
 
   public abstract ejbSelectReservations(CruiseLocal cruise);
   ...
}

The ejbHome( ) methods execute without an identity within the instance pool. This is why ejbHomeTotalReservationRevenue( ) required that a CruiseLocal EJB object reference ...

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