2 Questions : Can Messge Beans have an Instance Variable

[sopal Pal]

Hi
I have the following 2 questions
- Can a Message Driven Bean use Instance Variables
- What are the permissible values of <res-auth>. I thought it were either of these Bean / Container, but the WhizLabs - Practise Exam - 1, Q 29 answers it as - Application and Container ??
Thanks for your time and help
Sumit

[C Chavan]

1. MDBs can have instance variables but won't be client specific. one may use constants (static final). better define local variables in onMessage()
2. the correct values are Container and Application

[sopal Pal]

Hi Chavan
Thanks for your reply.
the HFE book refers to the values - as Beans/Container for the <res-auth> values.
Is that wrong ??
Sumit

[Roger Chung-Wee]

From the spec:

<!--
The res-auth element specifies whether the enterprise bean code signs
on programmatically to the resource manager, or whether the Container
will sign on to the resource manager on behalf of the enterprise bean.
In the latter case, the Container uses information that is supplied by
the Deployer.
The value of this element must be one of the two following:
<res-auth>Application</res-auth>
<res-auth>Container</res-auth>
-->
<!ELEMENT res-auth (#PCDATA)>