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Entity Bean

Chuyên đề Lập trình Java & J2EE

Chương 15Biên soạn: Th.S Nguyễn văn Lành

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Concepts An entity bean represents persistent data stored in one

row of a database table . When an entity bean is created, the data is written to the

appropriate database table row, and if the data in an entity bean is updated, the data in the appropriate database table row is also updated

Entity beans differ from session beans in several ways.

Entity beans are persistent: entity bean's state exists beyond the lifetime of the application

allow shared access: may be shared by multiple clients have primary keys: unique object identifier may participate in relationships with other entity beans

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When to Use Entity Beans

The bean represents a business entity, not a procedure. For example, CreditCardEJB would be

an entity bean CreditCardVerifierEJB would be a

session bean. The bean's state must be

persistent

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Types of persistent management Bean-Managed Persistence

the bean developer takes responsibility for persistent storage in attributes

Container-Managed Persistence 1.1 persistent attributes are defined as attributes of the

bean class and given in the deployment descriptor Container-Managed Persistence 2.0/2.1

The bean developer works with an abstract bean class defines abstract access methods for reading and writing of

attributes (During deployment the EJB container generates a derived class that implements all the abstract methods )

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Constitution of a entity bean

Remote interface: defines the business methods of the bean.

Home interface: defines the methods that allow a client to create and

find an entity bean Enterprise Bean class:

provides the implementation for the business methods, finder methods, home methods

Primary key class makes it possible to identify all entity bean identities uniquely

Deployment Descriptor: This configuration document defines the bean's runtime

attributes, such as its transaction or security attributes Helper classes

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Remote Interface

Each method in the remote interface must match a method in the enterprise bean class.

The signatures of the methods in the remote interface must be identical to the signatures of the corresponding methods in the enterprise bean class.

The arguments and return values must be valid RMI types.

The throws clause must include java.rmi.RemoteException

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Home Interface defines the methods that allow a client

to create and find an entity bean create Method

has the same number and types of arguments as its matching ejbCreate method in the enterprise bean class.

returns the remote interface type of the enterprise bean.

The throws clause includes the exceptions specified by the throws clause of the corresponding ejbCreate and ejbPostCreate methods.

The throws clause includes the javax.ejb.CreateException & java.rmi.RemoteException

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Entity bean creation

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Home Interface finder Method

Every finder method in the home interface corresponds to a finder method in the entity bean class.

The name of a finder method in the home interface begins with find, whereas the corresponding name in the entity bean class begins with ejbFind

The number and types of arguments must match those of the corresponding method in the entity bean class.

The return type is the entity bean's remote interface type, or a collection of those types.

The exceptions in the throws clause include those of the corresponding method in the entity bean class.

The throws clause contains the javax.ejb.FinderException & java.rmi.RemoteException

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Home Interface finder Method in bean class

All finder methods must begin with ejbFind. You must have at least one finder method, called

ejbFindByPrimaryKey. You can have many different finder methods, each

with different names and different parameters. A finder method must return either the primary

key for the entity bean it finds or a collection of primary keys if it finds more than one.

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Home Interface home Method

Each home method definition in the home interface corresponds to a method in the entity bean class.

In the home interface, the method name is arbitrary, provided that it does not begin with create or find.

In the bean class, the matching method name begins with ejbHome.

For example, in the SavingsAccountBean class the name is ejbHomeChargeForLowBalance, but in the SavingsAccountHome interface the name is chargeForLowBalance

The throws clause contains the java.rmi.RemoteException

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BMP guidelines

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BMP guidelines

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BMP guidelines

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BMP guidelines

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Bean-DBMS synchronization

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CMP Entity Beans

CMP Entity Beans Are Subclassed database-independent The container generates the JDBC code by

subclassing your entity bean class. CMP Entity Beans Have No Declared Fields CMP Entity Beans Have a Query Language CMP Entity Beans Can Have ejbSelect() Methods

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Bean instance Pooling

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CMP Guidelines

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