Socket connections from EJBs

[Tonny Tssagovic]

Hello people,
Is there any prob. with connecting to a socket from an EJB?
and if so, how come EJBs can act as web services clients?
Thanks
[ March 06, 2004: Message edited by: Tonny Tssagovic ]

[sever oon]

Yes, there's a problem. The EJB spec forbids opening sockets from within an EJB.
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[Tonny Tssagovic]

Well I was talking about Connecting to a socket.. I just checed it out on the specs.

The EJB architecture allows an enterprise bean instance to be a network socket client, but it does not
allow it to be a network server. Allowing the instance to become a network server would conflict with
the basic function of the enterprise bean-- to serve the EJB clients.

EJB 2.0 spec 24.1.2 page 495.
so there is no prob. with that.
Thanks anyway.