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An Overview of Enterprise Bean World
Enterprise Java Beans
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EJB Introduction
The EJB component are server-side components that encapsulate application behavior such as business logic and persistence code.
There are three types of EJB components: session beans, message-driven beans, and entities.
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• Session beans and message-driven beans are used to implement business logic in an EJB application, while entities are used for persistence.
• EJB components reside inside the EJB container.
• Together, the components, or EJBs, and the container can be viewed as a framework providing services.
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EJB with Annotations
Metadata annotations are used to preconfigure the EJBs by specifying the type of services to add when the container deploys the EJBs.
Annotations are used to specify the type of the EJB component and to specify the services.
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Layered architectures and EJB
In a layered architecture, components are grouped into tiers.
Each tier in the application has a well-defined purpose.
Each layer delegates the work to a layer underneath it.
EJB allows to build applications using two different layered architectures: the traditional four-tier architecture and domain-driven design (DDD).
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Traditional four-tier layered architectureThe presentation layer is responsible for rendering the
graphical user interface (GUI) and handling user input.
The presentation layer passes down each request for application functionality to the business logic layer.
The business logic layer is the heart of the application and contains workflow and processing logic.
It models the distinct actions or processes the application performs.
The business logic layer retrieves data from and saves data into the database by utilizing the persistence tier.
The persistence layer provides a high-level object-oriented (OO) abstraction over the database layer which typically consists of a relational database management system (RDBMS).
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Traditional four-tier layered architecture
EJB provides support for implementing the business logic and persistence layers.
Session beans and message-driven beans (MDBs) reside in and use the services in the business logic tier while entities reside in and use services in the persistence tier.
The traditional architecture undermines the OO ideal of modeling the business domain as objects that encapsulate both data and behavior.
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Domain-driven design (DDD)DDD emphasizes that domain objects should contain business logic and should not just be a dumb replica of database records.
The domain objects are known as entities in EJB 3.
The entities defined by EJB 3 Java Persistence API (JPA) support OO features, such as inheritance or polymorphism.
Entities are used to model domain objects, including modeling state and behavior.
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EJB3 FeaturesEase of use: It doesn’t demand that to understand the theoretical intricacies.
Integrated solution stack: It offers seamless integration with other J2ee technolgies and a complete stack of server solutions, including persistence, messaging, lightweight scheduling, remoting, web services, dependency injection (DI), and interceptors.
Open Java EE standard: EJB 3 has an open, public API specification and is developed by the Java Community Process (JCP).
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EJB3 FeaturesBroad vendor support: EJB is supported by a large and diverse variety of independent organizations.
Stable, high-quality code base: a relatively stable code base that has lived through some of the most demanding enterprise environments.
Clustering, load balancing, and failover: EJB application servers have a proven track record of supporting some of the largest high-performance computing environments.
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EJB TypesEach bean type serves a purpose and can use a specific subset of EJB services.
The purpose of bean types is to safeguard against overloading them with services that cross wires.
Session beans and message-driven beans (MDBs) live and managed by the container, and are used to build business logic.
Entities are used to model the persistence part of an application and persistence provider manages entities.
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Session BeansA session bean is invoked by a client to perform a specific business operation.
A session bean instance is available only for the duration of a “unit of work” and does not survive a server crash or shutdown.
There are two types of session beans: stateful and stateless.
A stateful session bean automatically saves bean state between client invocations.
A stateless session bean does not maintain any state and models the application services that can be completed in a single client invocation.
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Message-driven beans (MDB)MDBs process the business logic.
Clients never invoke MDB methods directly.
MDBs are triggered by messages sent to a messaging server, which enables sending asynchronous messages between system components.
MDBs are typically used for robust system integration or asynchronous processing.
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EntitiesEntities are the Java objects that are persisted into the database.
Entities model lower-level application concepts that high-level business processes manipulate.
Entities are OO representations of the application data stored in the database and hence survives container crashes and shutdown.
JPA entities support OO capabilities, including relationships between entities, inheritance, and polymorphism.
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The EntityManagerThe JPA EntityManager interface manages entities in terms of actually providing persistence services.
The EntityManager interface reads the ORM metadata for an entity and performs persistence operations.
The EntityManager knows how to add entities to the database, update stored entities, and delete and retrieve entities from the database.
JPA provides the ability to handle lifecycle management, performance tuning, caching, and transaction management.
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EJB container & Persistence Provider
The EJB container: The EJB container transparently provides EJB component services such as transactions, security management, remoting, and web services support.
In EJB 3, the container provides services applicable to session beans and MDBs only.
The persistence provider: JPA provides persistence services such as retrieving, adding, modifying, and deleting JPA entities when you explicitly ask for them by invoking EntityManager API methods.
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EJB servicesService Applies To
Integration Session beans and MDBs
Pooling Stateless session beans, MDBs
Thread-safety Session beans and MDBs
State management Stateful session beans
Messaging MDBs
Transactions Session beans and MDB
Security Session beans
Interceptors Session beans and MDBs
Remote access Session beans
Web services Stateless session beans
Persistence Entities
Caching and Performance Entities
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Hello World in EJB3package ejb3inaction.example;
public interface HelloUser {
public void sayHello(String name);
}
package ejb3inaction.example;
import javax.ejb.Stateless;
@Stateless
public class HelloUserBean implements HelloUser {
}
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Features of EJB3Simplified programming model: EJB 3 enables to develop an EJB component using POJOs and POJIs that know nothing about platform services.
Annotations instead of deployment descriptors: EJB 3 allows us to use metadata annotations to configure a component instead of using XML deployment descriptors
Dependency injection vs. JNDI lookup: JNDI lookups have been turned into simple configuration using metadata-based dependency injection (DI). E.g. @EJB annotation injects EJB into the annotated variable.
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Simplified persistence APIEJB 3 manipulates metadata-based POJOs through the EntityManager interface and avoids carrying burden of remote access.
Standardized persistence: EJB 3 solidifies automated persistence with JPA providing robust ORM configuration, JPQL standardizing divergent OR query technologies and EntityManager API standardizing ORM CRUD operations.
The cleanly separated Java Persistence API: JPA a cleanly separated API running outside EJB container.
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EJB 3 Metadata AnnotationsAnnotations “attach” additional information (attributes) to a Java class, interface, method, or variable.
An annotation is a special kind of interface, it must be imported from where it is defined.
EJB 3 allows to override annotations with XML deployment descriptors where appropriate.
A deployment descriptor is simply an XML file that contains application configuration information.
Deployment descriptor entries override configuration values hard-coded using annotations into EJB components.
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Common metadata annotationsAnnotations Usage Use
javax.annotation.Resource Dependency injection of resources EJB, web,app client
javax.ejb.EJB Dependency injection of session beans
EJB, web,app client
javax.jws.WebServiceRef Dependency injection of web services
EJB, web,app client
javax.persistence.PersistenceContext Dependency injection of container-managed EntityManager
EJB, web
javax.persistence.PersistenceUnit Dependency injection ofEntityManagerFactory
EJB, web
javax.annotation.PostConstruct Lifecycle method EJB, web
javax.annotation.PreDestroy Lifecycle method EJB, web
javax.annotation.security.RunAs Security EJB, web
javax.annotation.security.RolesAllowed Security EJB
javax.annotation.security.PermitAll Security EJB
javax.annotation.security.DenyAll Security EJB
javax.annotation.security.DeclareRoles Security EJB, web
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Dependency InjectionGoal of dependency injection (DI) is to make component interdependencies as loosely coupled as possible.
One component calls another component or resource only through an interface.
The DI is JNDI lookup model reversed.
In previous JNDI lookup model, the bean explicitly retrieves the resources and components which are hard-coded in the bean.
In DI, the container reads the target bean configuration and gets the beans and resources needed by bean and injects them into the bean at runtime.
ActionBazaar Application using 4tier
Using Stateless Session BeansStateless session beans are used to model actions or processes that can be done in one shot.
@Stateless—The @Stateless annotation tells the EJB container that declared Bean is a stateless session bean. The container automatically provides such services to the bean as automatic concurrency control, thread safety, pooling, and transaction management.
@Local—The @Local annotation on the interface tells the container that the implementing EJB can be accessed locally through the interface. Alternatively, when marked with @Remote annotation, remote access through the @Remote annotation is provided under the hood by Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI).
Stateless session bean sample codeimport javax.ejb.Stateless;
import ejb3inaction.example.persistence.Bid;
@Stateless
public class PlaceBidBean implements PlaceBid {
public PlaceBidBean() {}
public Bid addBid(Bid bid) {
System.out.println("Adding bid, bidder ID=" + bid.getBidderID()
+ ", item ID=" + bid.getItemID() + ", bid amount="
+ bid.getBidAmount() + ".");
return save(bid);
} ….
}
...
Stateless Bean Clientpublic class PlaceBidServlet extends HttpServlet {
@EJB
private PlaceBid placeBid;
public void service(….) {
Bid bid = new Bid();
bid.setBidderID(bidderID); ……..
placeBid.addBid(bid);
}
}
EJB 3 dependency injection Vs JNDIThe @EJB annotation makes the container “instantiate” the placeBid variable with the EJB named PlaceBid before the variable is available for use.
JNDI is the container registry that holds references to all container-managed resources such as EJBs.
Clients gain access to session beans like the PlaceBid EJB directly or indirectly through JNDI as follows:
Using stateful beansStateful session beans guarantee that a client can expect to set the internal state of a bean and count on the state being maintained between any number of method calls.
The container ensures that a client can reach a bean dedicated to it across more than one method invocation.
The container ensures that bean instance variable values are maintained for the duration of a session without your having to write any session maintenance code.
Stateful session bean sample codeimport javax.ejb.*;
@Stateful
public class PlaceOrderBean implements PlaceOrder {
private Long bidderID;
private List<Long> items;
private ShippingInfo shippingInfo;
private BillingInfo billingInfo;
public PlaceOrderBean () { items = new ArrayList<Long>(); }
public void setBidderID(Long bidderId) { this.bidderId = bidderId; }
public void addItem(Long itemId) { items.add(itemId); }
…..
Remove AnnotationThe @Remove annotation marks the end of the workflow modeled by a stateful bean.
The container is told that there is no longer a need to maintain the bean’s session with the client after the confirmOrder method is invoked.
If the container is never told what method invocation marks the end of the workflow, the container could wait for a long time until it could safely time-out the session.
Since stateful beans are guaranteed to be dedicated to a client for the duration of a session, a lot of “orphaned” state data is consuming the precious server resources for long periods of time.
Beans producing JMS Message@Stateful
public class PlaceOrderBean implements PlaceOrder {
@Resource(name="jms/QueueConnectionFactory")
private ConnectionFactory connectionFactory;
@Resource(name="jms/OrderBillingQueue")
private Destination billingQueue;
@Remove
Beans producing JMS Messageprivate billOrder(Order order) {
try {
Connection connection = connectionFactory.createConnection();
Session session = connection.createSession(false,
Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);
MessageProducer producer =
session.createProducer(billingQueue);
ObjectMessage message = session.createObjectMessage();
message.setObject(order);
producer.send(message);
producer.close();
Beans producing JMS Message
The @Resource annotation is much more general purpose and can be used to inject anything that the container knows about.
The name parameter values specify what resources are bound to the EJB’s environment naming context.
Message-Driven Beans@MessageDriven( activationConfig = {
@ActivationConfigProperty(
propertyName="destinationName",
propertyValue="jms/OrderBillingQueue") } )
public class OrderBillingMDB implements MessageListener {
public void onMessage(Message message) {
try {
ObjectMessage objectMessage = (ObjectMessage) message;
Order order = (Order) objectMessage.getObject();
try {
bill(order); notifyBillingSuccess(order);
order.setStatus(OrderStatus.COMPLETE);
} catch (BillingException be) {
notifyBillingFailure(be, order);
order.setStatus(OrderStatus.BILLING_FAILED);
} finally { update(order); }
} catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
}
Message-Driven BeansMDBs are not guaranteed to maintain state.
The @MessageDriven annotation makes the container transparently provide messaging and other EJB services into a POJO.
The activation configuration properties nested inside the @MessageDriven annotation informs MDB about the JMS destination to receive messages.
MDBs implement the javax.jms.MessageListener interface which is used by container to invoke the MDB.
The onMessage method defined by the interface has a single javax.jms.Message parameter that the container uses to pass(forward) a received message to the MDB.
EJB3 using JPAThe JPA EntityManager interface defines the API for persistence while JPA entities specify how application data is mapped to a relational database.
The @Entity annotation signifies the fact that the Class is a JPA entity.
The @Table annotation tells JPA that the JPA entity is mapped to the corresponding SQL table
The @Column annotations indicate which Entity properties map to which SQL table fields.
The field mappings could have been placed directly onto member variables exposed through nonprivate access modifiers.
The @Id annotation marks the corresponding property as the primary key for the Bid entity.
The @GeneratedValue allows to automatically generate the primary key when the entity is saved into the database.
JPA Entity@Entity
@Table(name="BIDS")
public class Bid implements Serializable {
private Long bidID;
private Long itemID;
@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.AUTO)
@Column(name="BID_ID")
public Long getBidID() { return bidID; }
public void setBidID(Long bidID) { this.bidID = bidID; }
@Column(name="ITEM_ID")
public Long getItemID() { return itemID; }
public void setItemID(Long itemID) { this.itemID = itemID; }
Using the EntityManagerThe JPA EntityManager performs saving of the entity into the database by reading ORM configuration and providing entity persistence services through an API-based interface.
The manager reads the ORM mapping annotations like @Table and @Column on the entity and figures out how to save the entity into the database.
The EntityManager is injected into the PlaceBid bean through the @PersistenceContext annotation.
The unitName parameter of the @PersistenceContext annotation points to the persistence unit of application.
A persistence unit is a group of entities packaged together in an application module.
Using the EntityManagerThe save method of EntityManager presists the data into the database issuing an SQL statement to insert a record in DB.
public class PlaceBidBean implements PlaceBid {
@PersistenceContext(unitName="actionBazaar")
private EntityManager entityManager;
…..
private Bid save(Bid bid) {
entityManager.persist(bid);
return bid;
}
}
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