Help!!! can Remote Client pass itself as parameter to Bean's business method?

[Hai Lin]

Hi All,
Due to my machine's enviroment setting got something wrong, so I cannot do the test for my question now, hoping you guys' can give me some advices:

Suppose we have a remote client:

public class AdviceClient {
...
//suppose we already get the EJB home interface back, the SuggestionGiver
//is the component interface
SuggestionGiver sg = home.create();
String suggestion = sg.getSuggestion(this);
...
public void fromClient() {
...
}
}

if the remote client can really pass itself, then that means the client is available for bean's business method, then the bean's business method can invoke Client's method (here is fromClient() method)

I know, passing client itself is a little weird, but technically, is it fine?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Hai

[Nathaniel Stoddard]

Definitely not! If the "client" as you put it, is a remote bean itself then you can pass a handle, or the EJBObject I believe (entityContext.getEJBObject()). But your code as you have it certainly wouldn't work since the client is in a different execution context or maybe on the other side of the planet.