Declaring EJB References 

Use

Use this procedure to declare references from an enterprise bean to other enterprise beans.

Procedure

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       1.      Open the ejb-jar.xml

       2.      From the right-hand pane, choose the Enterprise Beans tab

       3.      Open the corresponding tree structure according to the type of your enterprise bean (session, entity, or message-driven)

       4.      From your bean tree sub-structure, select ejb-ref (if you want to declare references to home interfaces) or ejb-local-ref (if you want to declare references to local home interfaces)

       5.      Choose add.

A dialog box appears.

       6.      Choose the enterprise beans, to which you want to declare EJB references.

The selected enterprise beans appear as sub-nodes under the ejb-ref or the ejb-local-ref node correspondingly. The required fields are automatically completed. You can specify the EJB Link and a description for the EJB reference.

To remove an EJB reference, select it and choose Remove.

See also:

 

Specifying JNDI Names for the Beans References