Chapter 13. Using Asynchronous Method Invocation in Session Beans
This chapter discusses how to implement asynchronous business methods in session beans and call them from enterprise bean clients.
The following topics are addressed here:
• “Asynchronous Method Invocation” on page 241
• “The async Example Application” on page 244
Asynchronous Method Invocation
Session beans can implement asynchronous methods, business methods where control is returned to the client by the enterprise bean container before the method is invoked on the session bean instance. Clients may then use the Java SE concurrency API to retrieve the result, cancel the invocation, and check for exceptions. Asynchronous methods are typically used for long-running operations, ...
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