Creating a socket inside a J2EE bean

[yujikiriki]

Hi,

I'm accessing an application from a J2EE stateless bean through a socket and everything is going fine, but some colleagues told me that doing it is a bad practice.

Is bad practice to create a new socket inside a J2EE stateless bean? If so, why and what alternatives do I have?

Thanks!

[yujikiriki]

No one???

[frankthetank]

Maybe they are saying that because JBoss does offer multiple services such as RMI, SOAP and Servlets that also provide access.

Other then that, I don't know why it should be bad to have your own sockets.

If you needs require it, then do it. And if your colleagues say it is bad practice, then demand they tell you why.

What is bad practice is to claim something is bad and not explain why.