Special Edition Using Enterprise JavaBeans™ 2.0

Creating a Message-Driven Bean

Creating a message-driven bean is not that complicated. They really are much easier to create than session or entity beans because you don’t have to worry about creating a home or a component interface for them. To create a message-driven bean, your class must implement two required interfaces:

• The javax.ejb.MessageDrivenBean interface

• The javax.jms.MessageListener interface

The MessageDrivenBean Interface

The first interface that your message-driven bean must implement is the javax.ejb.MessageDrivenBean interface. Table 11.1 lists the methods that are part of the MessageDrivenBean interface.

Table 11.1. Methods of the javax.ejb.MessageDrivenBean Interface

Name	Description
ejbRemove	Called by the container before ...