javax.ejb.embeddable

Class EJBContainer

java.lang.Object

javax.ejb.embeddable.EJBContainer

All Implemented Interfaces:

AutoCloseable

public abstract class EJBContainer
extends Object
implements AutoCloseable

Used to execute an EJB application in an embeddable container.

Since:

EJB 3.1

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static String	APP_NAME Standard property name for specifying the application name of the EJB modules executing within the embeddable container.
static String	MODULES Standard property name for specifying the set of modules to be initialized.
static String	PROVIDER Standard property name for specifying the embeddable container implementation bootstrap class.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
EJBContainer()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
abstract void	close() Shutdown an embeddable EJBContainer instance.
static EJBContainer	createEJBContainer() Create and initialize an embeddable EJB container.
static EJBContainer	createEJBContainer(Map<?,?> properties) Create and initialize an embeddable EJB container with a set of configuration properties.
abstract Context	getContext() Retrieve a naming context for looking up references to session beans executing in the embeddable container.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

PROVIDER

public static final String PROVIDER

Standard property name for specifying the embeddable container implementation bootstrap class. Property value is a fully-qualified class name.

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Constant Field Values

MODULES

public static final String MODULES

Standard property name for specifying the set of modules to be initialized. Property value is one of the following :

• a single module name String from the JVM classpath
• a String[] array of module names from the JVM classpath
• a java.io.File representing an ejb-jar or exploded ejb-jar directory
• a java.io.File array, each element of which represents an ejb-jar or exploded ejb-jar directory

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Constant Field Values

APP_NAME

public static final String APP_NAME

Standard property name for specifying the application name of the EJB modules executing within the embeddable container. If specified, the property value applies to the <app-name> portion of the portable global JNDI name syntax. If this property is not specified, the <app-name> portion of the portable global JNDI name syntax does not apply.

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

EJBContainer

public EJBContainer()

Method Detail

createEJBContainer

public static EJBContainer createEJBContainer()

Create and initialize an embeddable EJB container. JVM classpath is searched for all ejb-jars or exploded ejb-jars in directory format.

Returns:

EJBContainer instance

Throws:

EJBException - Thrown if the container or application could not be successfully initialized.

createEJBContainer

public static EJBContainer createEJBContainer(Map<?,?> properties)

Create and initialize an embeddable EJB container with a set of configuration properties.

Parameters:

properties - Spec-defined and/or vendor-specific properties. The spec reserves the prefix "javax.ejb." for spec-defined properties.

Returns:

EJBContainer instance

Throws:

EJBException - Thrown if the container or application could not be successfully initialized.

getContext

public abstract Context getContext()

Retrieve a naming context for looking up references to session beans executing in the embeddable container.

Returns:

naming context

close

public abstract void close()

Shutdown an embeddable EJBContainer instance. Embeddable applications should always call close() in order to free up the resources associated with the embeddable container.

Specified by:

close in interface AutoCloseable