EjbRef

The ejb-ref element is used for the declaration of a reference to an enterprise bean's home. The declaration consists of an optional description; the EJB reference name used in the code of the referencing application client; the expected type of the referenced enterprise bean; the expected home and remote interfaces of the referenced enterprise bean; and an optional ejb-link information. The optional ejb-link element is used to specify the referenced enterprise bean.


 

Attributes Summary
name The ejb-ref-name element contains the name of an EJB reference.
type The ejb-ref-type element contains the expected type of the referenced enterprise bean.
home The home element contains the fully-qualified name of the enterprise bean's home interface.
remote The remote element contains the fully-qualified name of the enterprise bean's remote interface.
link The ejb-link element is used in the ejb-ref element to specify that an EJB reference is linked to an enterprise bean in the encompassing J2EE Application package.
description The description element is used by the ejb-jar file producer to provide text describing the parent element.
/linkedEJB  

 

Attribute Details

name

The ejb-ref-name element contains the name of an EJB reference. This is the JNDI name that the servlet code uses to get a reference to the enterprise bean.Example: <ejb-ref-name>ejb/Payroll</ejb-ref-name>

Data type:   String
Default value:   unspecified


type

The ejb-ref-type element contains the expected type of the referenced enterprise bean. The ejb-ref-type element must be one of the following:<ejb-ref-type>Entity</ejb-ref-type><ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type>

Data type:  EjbRefType
Default value:   unspecified
Allowed Values:  Session   Entity  


home

The home element contains the fully-qualified name of the enterprise bean's home interface.Example: <home>com.aardvark.payroll.PayrollHome</home>

Data type:   String
Default value:   unspecified


remote

The remote element contains the fully-qualified name of the enterprise bean's remote interface.

Data type:   String
Default value:   unspecified


link

The ejb-link element is used in the ejb-ref element to specify that an EJB reference is linked to an enterprise bean in the encompassing J2EE Application package. The value of the ejb-link element must be the ejb-name of an enterprise bean in the same J2EE Application package. Example: <ejb-link>EmployeeRecord</ejb-link>

Data type:   String
Default value:   unspecified


description

The description element is used by the ejb-jar file producer to provide text describing the parent element. The description element should include any information that the ejb-jar file producer wants to provide to the consumer of the ejb-jar file (i.e. to the Deployer). Typically, the tools used by the ejb-jar file consumer will display the description when processing the parent element.

Data type:   String
Default value:   unspecified


/linkedEJB

 

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