Returning an EJB from other

[francesquini]

Hi!

I'd like to return an stateful EJB from another EJB to a client. Nothing new to it, but, I'd like to have it initialized before hand.

In earlier versions of EJB (as in 2.1) I could do that by declaring a create method with some parameters in a Home interface. Now, in EJB 3.0 I couldn't find a way to do it. I imagine the solution for that is to use the @Init annotation with a inicialization method that receveis some arguments. The problem is that I'm not sure how to make the container call this method because I don't realy know any other way to create an EJB instance other than doing a JNDI lookup in which the container calls the zero argument version of the anottated method.

Any ideias on how to do it in EJB 3.0?

tks

[waynebaylor]

have you tried @PostConstruct ?

[francesquini]

Yes. The problem is how do I create a remote reference to an EJB passing an argument. A JNDI lookup, as I am doing now, doesn't allow that.

[waynebaylor]

what about adding a initialize(...) method that your EJB calls before returning it?

[wolfc]

Either create a method which initializes the bean:

@Init void create(int state)
{
 this.state = state;
}

Put that same method in you business interface. Note that the @Init is actually meant for use with an EJB 2.1 client view.

Or if you want a reference to the current bean:

MySession getReference()
{
 return ctx.getBusinessObject(MySession.class);
}

See also: http://viewvc.jboss.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/jbossas/trunk/ejb3/src/test/org/jboss/ejb3/test/ejbthree1020/