Three questions

[TejasAnand Gokhale]

Q1. In HFEJB mock test in Qusetion#42 its mentioned that ejbCreate can call another bean for a Stateful CMT bean. For this ejbCreate should be in a meaning ful transaction. But tx attribute is not specified for create methods for session beans. then how come?

Q2. In Qusetion#55 says that when creating a CMP entity bean you can call a business method. Now while creating entity bean means in ejbCreate or ejbPostCreate method. How can you call a business method from these method?

Q3. Option c of Qusetion#49 is said to be entity bean with BMT and the option is markes correct. Please confirm this is a mistake otherwise I loose all my confidence.

[paresh vernekar]

Ans 1. You are right about transaction context not being specified for create of session beans.However you are allowed to invoke other beans in ejbCreate of stateful CMT session bean as per spec. As I see it, from ejbCreate you would probably call either a BMT or a CMT bean.With BMT it doesn�t matter whether the call is in a transaction.With CMT whether the invocation is successful or you get an exception depends on the transaction attribute that you specify for the invoked method

Ans 2.For a CMP entity bean, ejbCreate/ejbPostCreate runs within a transaction. So as such it wont have any issues invoking business methods.

Ans 3.You are right about this.You can refer to my earlier post regarding the same question

[TejasAnand Gokhale]

Regarding Answer1:But we never specify tx attribute for ejbCreate or create method of stateful beans.

Reg. ans2: How can you call a business in ejbcreate/postcreate? This would mean bean being client to itself.

[paresh vernekar]

Regarding answer 1:Since we dont specify transaction attributes, hence I said it would be a problem when you invoke a CMT which has a method with transaction attribute 'Mandatory'.
Regarding answer 2: A bean can invokes its own methods, implying it can be its own client.If I am not wrong the specifications doesn't mention that a bean cannot calls its own business methods.So even such an invocation would be valid

Please correct me if I am wrong

Regards,
Paresh Vernekar