Getting Document in an Entity EJB via HTTP vs. Web Services

[Laszlo Mihalka]

Dear developers and architects:

There is Entity Bean's persistenced via JDBC . Each of them has an attribute holding a document. This document can be accessed either via HTTP or Web Services (WS) on an other Application Server (AS) . There is some questions concerning architect:
1. Is it recommended / allowed to write the HTTP or WS client code within the EJB ? If not, what kind of design is recommended ?
2. If both AS's reside within an Intranet (DMZ), shoud be preferred the HTTP solution ?

I'm very thankful for any suggestion.

Warm regards,

Laszlo

[Ulf Dittmer]

Please do not post questions to more than one forum. Let's discuss this issue in the identical thread over in the EJB and J2EE forum, where there's an answer already.