EJBLocalHome and EJBMetadata

[Rashmi Tambe]

Why EJBLocalHome interface does not define any method for getting EJBMetadata? EJBMetadata is very useful to identify whether the bean is a session or entity bean. So how we do verify the same with beans having local interfaces?

[Sunil Patil]

EJBMetaData inteface was introduced because developers wanted access to meta information about bean which is available to normal java class through reflection but was not available to EJB clients because of remote access to EJB.
In case of local client this problem is not there.You can directly use reflection.
Sunil