Session Beans & Entity Beans together

[Murat Balkan]

Hi,
How Entity beans are called from Session beans.? I mean the same steps required that client has to do? (JNDI lookup,home stub vs.)
Thnks

[v Gupta]

There is only one difference, in case of Session beans you get remote object by calling create method but in the case of Entity means we call finder() methods or create() when new data needs to be inserted into the database.

[Murat Balkan]

I want the client to call a session bean. This bean will make the db processes through entity beans. Client has to make a JNDI query, and then create for the session bean, thats ok. But my question is this session bean has to make jndi lookups for entity beans that it will be using? (They are on the same VM)

[Marcos Maia]

Originally posted by Murat Balkan:
I want the client to call a session bean. This bean will make the db processes through entity beans. Client has to make a JNDI query, and then create for the session bean, thats ok. But my question is this session bean has to make jndi lookups for entity beans that it will be using? (They are on the same VM)

Yes, you'll have to do a lookup, you should consider using a homecache pattern, also you can get the local interface instead of the remote one if you're using ejb 2.0

[Raj Mehta]

If you are using EJB 2.0, you can use the "Local" interface instead of the Remote interface.