ENTITY BEAN IN JAVA

Hiren Jamod
Department Of ComputerScience
Saurastra University-Rajkot
ENTITY BEANS
 Enterprise Beans which represent persistent
data stored in a storage medium, such as a
relational database.
 Persists across multiple sessions and can be
accessed by multiple clients.
 Each instance of the entity bean represent a row
in the table
 EJB container creates instances of an entity bean
and is responsible for loading data in an instance
and storing the information (data) back into the
database.
ENTITY BEANS
 The persistent mechanisms that enable you to
perform these database manipulations, such as
serialization, Object/Relationship (O/R) mapping
to a relational database and support for JDBC
are built-in the entity bean model
CHARACTERISTICS
Persistence
 Implies that its state exists even after a client stops
accessing an application
 The persistent data remain intact even after the
storage shuts down
Shared Access
 Multiple clients can share one entity bean by using
separate instances of the entity bean
 EJB Container maintains data consistency by
synchronizing entity bean instances with the
database
 To maintain data consistency, the entity beans work
within a transaction
CHARACTERISTICS
Primary Key
 Each Entity bean has unique identifier; is known
as Primary Key that enables the client to locate
the exact entity bean
Relationships
 Like the data of a relational database, the entity
beans are also elated to each other
LIFE CYCLE OF ENTITY BEANS
LIFE CYCLE OF ENTITY BEANS
 Initially, the beans do not exist
 When the Application server this stage to the Pooled
stage
 When the server is first started, several bean
instances are created and placed in the pool.
 A bean instance in the pooled state is not ties to

particular data
 At this stage, the beans are referred as passivated.

 The bean remains in this stage till the client does

not make a request for it or the container does not

activate it.
LIFE CYCLE OF ENTITY BEANS
 The bean’s business methods can be invoked
when the bean is at the ready stage.
 It remains at this stage till the client calls its
remove method or the container passiveness it if
the bean has been lying idle for sometimes
EJB SOURCE CODE
 Home Interface (extends EJBHome)
 Create - Find (for Entity)
 Factory Pattern
 Remote Interface (EJBObject)
 “Business Methods”
 Proxy Pattern
 Bean Class (EntityBean)
 Deployment descriptor (ejb-jar.xml)
CRAETE APPLICATION
GIVE NAME OF CRAETE APPLICATION
ADD SESSION BEAN
GIVE NAME OF SESSION BEAN
ADD PERSISTENCE UNIT
GIVE NAME PERSISTENCE UNIT
ADD ENTITY CLASS
ADD REFERENCE INTO WEB.XML
DECLER INTERFACE
DEFINE INTERFACE AND OVERRIDE
METHOD
DEFINE ENTITY BEANCLASS
DEFINE INDEX PAGE
DEFINE INDEX PAGE
DEFINE INDEX PAGE
DEFINE INDEX PAGE
SPECIAL THANKS T0 AMIT SIR
TO GIVE ME OPPORTUNITY TO REPRESENT MY
PRESENTATION.
BY HIREN JAMOD