Operations permitted during bean creation

[Norm Mattson]

Paul,

I downloaded your SCBCD Exam Study Kit ebook a few weeks ago and am about half way through it now. After reading the section on session beans there is one topic that I'm not sure I fully understand. Could you explain why resource manager access and access to other beans is permitted in an ejbCreate method for stateful session beans but is prohibited for stateless session beans?

Thanks
[ July 27, 2005: Message edited by: Norm Mattson ]

[Vicky Bajaj]

I am not very sure but what I think is because ejbCreate and ejbRemove in stateful session bean are controlled by Calling client i.e. when you call home.remove(...) on Stateful session bean, the container invokes ejbRemove and same as with home.create(..). So in Client identity is available in ejbCreate and ejbRemove that's why access to Resource managers and other enterprise beans is allowed in ejbCreate and ejbRemove methods in Stateful session bean.

Someone pls correct if I am wrong.

[Paul Sanghera]

Originally posted by Norm Mattson:
Paul,

I downloaded your SCBCD Exam Study Kit ebook a few weeks ago and am about half way through it now. After reading the section on session beans there is one topic that I'm not sure I fully understand. Could you explain why resource manager access and access to other beans is permitted in an ejbCreate method for stateful session beans but is prohibited for stateless session beans?

Thanks

[ July 27, 2005: Message edited by: Norm Mattson ]

Norm:
Another way of saying what Vicky said is:
Accessing resource managers (and also other enterprise beans for that matter) is prohibited in those session bean methods for which the container (at call time) does not have a meaningful transaction context or client security context. It's very important to remember that the creation and removal of a stateless session bean does not depend upon a client call.
Hope it helps.
Norm, also make sure you check the errata at Author Online forum which can be accessed from:
http://www.manning.com/sanghera