EJB container settings

Use this page to configure and manage a specific EJB container.

To view this administrative console page, click Servers > Application Servers > serverName > EJB Container.

Configuration tab

Passivation directory

Specifies the directory into which the container saves the persistent state of passivated stateful session beans.

Beans are passivated when the number of active bean instances becomes greater than the cache size specified in the container configuration. When a stateful bean is passivated, the container serializes the bean instance to a file in the passivation directory and discards the instance from the bean cache. If, at a later time, a request arrives for the passivated bean instance, the container retrieves it from the passivation directory, deserializes it, returns it to the cache, and dispatches the request to it. If any step fails (for example, if the bean instance is no longer in the passivation directory), the method invocation fails.

Inactive pool cleanup interval

Specifies the interval at which the container examines the pools of available bean instances to determine if some instances can be deleted to reduce memory usage.

Data type	Integer
Units	Milliseconds
Range	Greater than 0

Default datasource JNDI name

Specifies the JNDI name of a data source to use if no data source is specified during application deployment. This setting is not applicable for EJB 2.x-compliant CMP beans.

Servlets and enterprise beans use data sources to obtain these connections. When configuring a container, you can specify a default data source for the container. This data source becomes the default data source used by any entity beans installed in the container that use container-managed persistence (CMP).

The default data source for a container is secure. When specifying it, provide a user ID and password for accessing the data source.

Specifying a default data source is optional if each CMP entity bean in the container has a data source specified in its configuration. If a default data source is not specified and a CMP entity bean is installed in the container without specifying a data source for that bean, applications cannot use that CMP entity bean.

Initial state

Specifies the execution state requested when the server first starts.

Data type	String
Default	Started
Range	Valid values are Started and Stopped