Test the Home Validity - avoid NullPointerException

[noel.rocher]

Hi,

Is there a way to test the validity of a home of a stateless session bean other than to invoke the create method ?

When I put a handle of such an object in a http session, I want to detect if I can reuse it or if i need a new valid one.

Tx,

Noel

[wmprice]

Hello,
In terms of a stateless session bean you should be ok regardless. If kept in session, the object should remain valid. However, I trust what you are trying not to do is serialzie the javax.ejb.Handle, and then recreate the reference at some later point. Of course you can always do:

if(ejbReference == null)
//Create new reference here

else
proceed

If I have missed something in your problem let me know.

Regards,

Weston