Why two interfaces that is home and component

[Raj Kumar Bindal]

I don't understand why we have 2 to go through 2 interfaces(home and component) to access a bean class.
**Does this exists to make difference between different kind of beans.
or any other reason???
plz clarify it??

[wise owen]

You can say that EJBHome is service factory for EJB objects.

[Raj Kumar Bindal]

But,we are doing nothing through Home interface,just getting reference of component interface.
I am not clear why 2 interfaces???

[Balaji Anand]

I had the same question... When i hit... say the AdviceBean Home i am going to ultimately ask for a session object... so y cant the first call itself do everything internally and give me an Component interface?(let us ignore the casting and stuff for a while).

[Peer Reynders]

I'm sure the answer you are looking for is here somewhere; search the forum or google the saloon.
Here's just one: What is purpose of homeObject?
(Of course these days I argue that the home interface has a Factory Method while EJBHome isn't an Abstract Factory: Patterns: Abstract Factory Vs Factory Method)
[ May 19, 2006: Message edited by: Peer Reynders ]

[Patrick Williams]

EJB 2.0 does not want you to access the bean directly. If you could, you would not be able to take advantage of security (which is supplied by the container generated EJBObject) and object pooling. When you utilize the Home interface, you are essentially asking the container to create a new object or to grab one from the pool. This would be more difficult for the container (and container developers) if it allow for calling the bean itself. HTH