DI in helper classes

[Joe Harry]

Guys,

I have a small doubt from the EJB 3.0 in Action book,

Here it is...To look up a resource from the helper class, you have to reference the reouurce in the EJB class as follows,

@Resource(name="jdbc/actionBazaarDB", mappedName="jdbc/actionBazaarDS", type=javax.sql.Datasource.class)

@Stateless
public class PlaceBidBean implements PlaceBid

You can look up the resource either from the EJB or the helper class as follows:

Context ctx = new InitialContext ();
DataSource ds = (DataSource) ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/ActionBazaarDB);

I understand that we cannot use DI in un-managed classes, but from the above code, how will my @Resource Annotation know which helper class to look for doing the DI?

[Mihai Radulescu]

Hi Jothi


in your example you deal with a managed class because you use the @Stateless annotation.
The container will use the mappedName together with the name to inject the needed instance.


Regards,
M

[Joe Harry]

Originally posted by Mihai Radulescu:
Hi Jothi


in your example you deal with a managed class because you use the @Stateless annotation.
The container will use the mappedName together with the name to inject the needed instance.


Regards,
M

Where will the container look for the mappedName?