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| <h1 class="topictitle1">Creating session beans</h1> |
| <div><p>You can use a wizard to create a session bean and add it to your |
| project.</p> |
| <div class="p">Before you can create an enterprise bean, you must:<ul><li>Define an EJB project to contain the enterprise bean. See <a href="tecrtpro.html">Creating EJB projects</a></li> |
| <li>Install XDoclet annotation support and enable it. See <a href="txdocletconf.html">Configuring XDoclet annotation support</a></li> |
| </ul> |
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| <div class="section"> <p>To create a session bean:</p> |
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| <ol><li class="stepexpand"><span>In the J2EE perspective, click <span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">File</span> > <span class="uicontrol">New</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Other</span> > <span class="uicontrol">EJB</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Enterprise JavaBean</span></span>. The Create an Enterprise |
| Bean wizard appears.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Select the <span class="uicontrol">SessionBean</span> radio button.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Click <span class="uicontrol">Next</span>.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Select the <span class="uicontrol">Project</span> that will contain the |
| new session bean.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Select a <span class="uicontrol">Module Name</span>, or use the <span class="uicontrol">New</span> button |
| to create one.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>In the <span class="uicontrol">Folder</span> field, select the folder for |
| the new bean.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>In the <span class="uicontrol">Java package</span> field, enter the package |
| name for the new bean.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>In the <strong>Class name</strong> field, type a name for the enterprise |
| bean. By convention, bean names should begin with an uppercase letter.</span> <div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note: </span>You can use Unicode characters for the bean name, but Unicode |
| characters are not supported for enterprise bean packages and classes associated |
| with enterprise beans.</div> |
| </li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Change the <span class="uicontrol">Superclass</span> for the bean if you |
| want it to inherit from a class other than <samp class="codeph">java.lang.Object</samp>.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Click <span class="uicontrol">Next</span>.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Provide an <span class="uicontrol">EJB Name</span> for the bean.</span> This is the name of the enterprise bean class.</li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Provide an <span class="uicontrol">JNDI Name</span> for the bean.</span> This is a logical name used by the server to locate an enterprise bean |
| at runtime.</li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Provide an <span class="uicontrol">Display Name</span> for the bean.</span> This is a short name for the enterprise bean that is used by tools.</li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Provide a text <span class="uicontrol">Description</span> for the bean.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Select the <span class="uicontrol">State type</span> for the new bean:</span><ul><li>A <span class="uicontrol">Stateful</span> session bean maintains client-specific |
| session information, or conversational state, across multiple method calls |
| and transactions. An instance of a stateful session bean has a unique identity |
| that is assigned by the container at create time.</li> |
| <li>A <span class="uicontrol">Stateless</span> session bean does not maintain |
| conversational state. Instances of a stateless session bean have no conversational |
| state. All instances of a stateless session bean have the same object identifier, |
| which is assigned by the container.</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Select a <span class="uicontrol">Transaction Type</span> for the new bean:</span><ul><li><span class="uicontrol">Container</span> specifies that the transaction demarcation |
| is performed by the container.</li> |
| <li><span class="uicontrol">Bean</span> specifies that the transaction demarcation |
| is performed by the bean.</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Click <span class="uicontrol">Next</span>.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Select the type of <span class="uicontrol">Modifiers</span> to use for |
| the class. Choices are <span class="uicontrol">Public</span>, <span class="uicontrol">Abstract</span>, |
| and <span class="uicontrol">Final</span>.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Select the <span class="uicontrol">Interfaces</span> you want the bean |
| to implement:</span><ul><li>Click the <span class="uicontrol">Add</span> button to open the Type Selection |
| dialog box where you can select the interface that you want to implement.</li> |
| <li>If you added an interface that you no longer want to implement, select |
| the interface in the list and click <strong>Remove</strong>.</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Select the method stubs that you want the wizard to create. Choices |
| include <span class="uicontrol">main</span>, <span class="uicontrol">Inherited abstract methods</span>, |
| and <span class="uicontrol">Constructors from the superclass</span>.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Click <span class="uicontrol">Finish</span>.</span> The new bean |
| is added to the specified EJB project.</li> |
| </ol> |
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