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| <h1 class="topictitle1">Deleting enterprise beans</h1> |
| <div><p>You can delete enterprise beans, bean classes, access beans, and |
| deployment code. In some cases, you may want to only delete the access beans |
| or deployment code that are associated with enterprise beans.</p><div class="skipspace"><p>Note that the packages that are used to hold the generated Java types |
| are not deleted with the associated enterprise bean. You must manually delete |
| unused packages from your project when the generated classes in those packages |
| are removed.</p> |
| <p>You can delete some or all of the artifacts that compose |
| an enterprise bean:</p> |
| <ul><li>EJB metadata in deployment descriptor editor</li> |
| <li>Deployment code</li> |
| <li>Access bean classes</li> |
| <li>Bean classes</li> |
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| <p>If you delete the EJB metadata from the deployment descriptor, the |
| generated access bean classes and deployment code will also be deleted because |
| they cannot exist without the bean classes. If you delete an enterprise bean |
| using the EJB editor (or while an EJB editor is open), the delete is not committed |
| until the editor is saved. Therefore, if you close the editor without saving, |
| the enterprise bean remains and the deleted Java files are returned.</p> |
| <p>When an |
| EJB is deleted, all of the metadata that is associated with the bean is also |
| deleted, including metadata from the bindings and extension documents.</p> |
| <div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note: </span>When |
| a CMP entity bean is deleted, any mappings related to this bean will not be |
| automatically removed. When the Mapping editor is opened on these files after |
| an entity bean is deleted, the mappings will be removed. This is expected |
| behavior. You will need to open the Mapping editor prior to generating deployment |
| code.</div> |
| <p>To delete enterprise beans, access beans, or deployment code:</p> |
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| <ol><li class="skipspace"><span>In the Project Explorer view of the J2EE perspective, expand an |
| EJB module and select one or more enterprise beans. </span> <div class="tip"><span class="tiptitle">Tip: </span>You |
| can also delete a bean from the Bean page of the deployment descriptor editor |
| by selecting the bean and clicking <span class="uicontrol">Remove</span>. |
| Deleting from the Project Explorer view commits the deletion immediately, |
| if no editor is open. Deleting from the deployment descriptor editor commits |
| the changes when the editor is saved.</div> |
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| <li class="skipspace"><span>Right-click and select <span class="uicontrol">Delete</span>. A dialog |
| opens and gives you additional options that you can select to further define |
| what you want to delete.</span></li> |
| <li class="skipspace"><span>Click <span class="uicontrol">OK</span>.</span></li> |
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