Head First EJB

Who creates what?

For a bean with a remote client view (in other words, a bean that can be accessed by remote clients), you know that you have to write the Component interface and the Bean class. But somebody has to write the class that implements your Component interface (to make the Remote EJBObject), and somebody has to make the stub that goes with that EJBObject. That somebody is the Container. And, though we haven’t yet talked about the Home, we’ve listed the relevant pieces here for completeness.

You	the Container
The Component interface (extends javax.ejb.EJBObject) The Bean class (implements javax.ejb.SessionBean or javax.ejb.EntityBean) The Home interface (extends javax.ejb.EJBHome; we’ll talk about this on the next page)	The EJBObject class (implements your Component interface) The EJBObject stub class (implements your Component interface and knows how to talk to the EJBObject) The Home class (implements your Home interface) The Home stub class (implements your Home interface and knows how to talk to the Home)

We haven’t talked about the Home yet, so we don’t show it on this picture.

Overheard at the Tikibean Lounge

EJBObject: Hey Beanie...don’t you ever get tired of always having me in the middle of everything? Don’t you ever just want to have a direct conversation with someone?

Bean: No. I’m too important. I’m too valuable. And I’m sure as hell not gonna start screening my own calls. ...