EJB 3

Sometimes it an be useful for debugging purpose to retrieve the id of a transaction; one typical scenario could be a transaction started by an EJB deployed as CMT. The javax.transaction.TransactionManager interface provides two ways to fetch the transaction id: The simplest strategy is to call the toString method to print complete information about the running … Read more

The Envers project aims to enable easy auditing/versioning of persistent classes. This can simplify storing and retrieving historical sets of data from the DB. Similarly to Subversion, Envers has a concept of revisions. Basically, one transaction is one revision (unless the transaction didn’t modify any audited entities).   As the revisions are global, having a revision … Read more

You can specify the maximum number of JMS Sessions that are available to concurrently deliver messages to an MDB using the maxSession property. Here is an example: @MessageDriven(activationConfig = { @ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = “maxSessions”, propertyValue = “1”), @ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = “destinationType”, propertyValue = “javax.jms.Queue”), @ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = “destination”, propertyValue = “TASK.QUEUE”) }) public class BuildTasksMessageListener implements MessageListener { … Read more

EJBs support two types of transaction management: Container managed and Bean managed. Container managed transactions provide a transactional context for calls to bean methods, and are defined using Java annotations or the deployment descriptor file ejb-jar.xml. Bean managed transactions are controlled directly using the Java Transaction API (JTA) . In both cases, you can set … Read more

It is often useful for the application to react to certain events that happen inside the persistence mechanism. The JPA specification provides a simple mechanism for that: you can add the  @EntityListeners annotation to capture persistence events in callback methods. Example: Consider the following Note class: import java.io.Serializable; import javax.persistence.Entity; import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue; import javax.persistence.Id; import javax.persistence.Table; … Read more

Automatic timers are created by the EJB container when an enterprise bean that contains methods annotated with the @Schedule or @Schedules annotations is deployed. An enterprise bean can have multiple automatic timeout methods, unlike a programmatic timer, which allows only one method annotated with the @Timeout annotation in the enterprise bean class. Automatic timers can … Read more

In the most recent version of WildFly (20) it is now possible to configure a default timeout setting for all your Stateful beans. Let’s recap in this article all timeout policies you can define for your EJBs: StatefulTimeout: This timeout policy is used to force passivation of Stateful beans which are inactive for a certain … Read more

The purpose of this tutorial is to demonstrate how to lookup and invoke an EJB deployed on an WildFly server instance from another EJB located in another application. Here is our scenario: If, on the other hand, your scenario requires invoking an EJB from a standalone remote Client, then check this tutorial: WildFly remote EJB … Read more

The EJB Timer Service can build applications that depend on time based services. In this tutorial we will show how you can receive timer notifications on your Session Beans. In order to do that, an EJB needs to register with the Timer service and one of its methods will be called back on a time … Read more