Where to put initialization code for SLSB or MDB? ejbCreate or setXXXContext?

[Dani Mazzuca]

Hi,
Which is the most appropriate place to put a code that caches a JNDI InitialContext object or a JDBC data source object for SLSB or MDB? Is it setXXXContext() or ejbCreate() method? Pros and cons for each one? (please, for this time forget the ServiceLocator pattern; I just want to know where is the most appropriate place to put initialization code).
Thanks in advance,
Dani Mazzuca

[Nicholas Cheung]

I think ejbCreate() will be appropiate. Since setXXXContext() is called before the ejbCreate(), it is, as of its name, better use for context issues. For caching the JNDI lookup instance, it is better to be done inside ejbCreate().
Nick

[Ramakrishna Allam]

I think we can do both the ways as everybody know . But It might be more appropriate to do it in the setXXXContext() methods . I remember i read some where in the spec , that we will write code that required for the life time of the bean in setXXContext() methods . But I read that for entity beans . Should be same for session as well as MDB . Any comments?

[Vishwa Kumba]

setSessionContext(), - as long as you do not call any methods on the Data source object, it is fine...

[Baskaran Vengesanam]

I would say, ejbCreate() method is the right place to have "Initialization code", no matter it is for SLSB, SFSB or MDBs. The reason being, you can do anything you need to from this method, including things you can't do in setSessionContext(). See HFE Page - 195 (point 3).
Hope, this answers your question.
On the way to certification.

[Dani Mazzuca]

Hi Baskaran,

Originally posted by Baskaran Vengesanam:
I would say, ejbCreate() method is the right place to have "Initialization code", no matter it is for SLSB, SFSB or MDBs. The reason being, you can do anything you need to from this method, including things you can't do in setSessionContext(). See HFE Page - 195 (point 3).
Hope, this answers your question.
On the way to certification.

I also think that it is better to put the code in ejbCreate() method, although I am not sure of that. However, note that HFE page 195 (point 3) is referring to Stateful session beans, especially por the purpose of passing arguments values to the bean. This is not the case for SLSB and MDB.
Dani Mazzuca