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SHANE Long is determined to force his way into Giovanni Trapattoni's World Cup plans after working his way back into Republic of Ireland contention.
The 25-year-old West Brom striker was handed a rare start in last night's 1-0 friendly defeat by Greece at the Aviva Stadium after finding himself back in favour with the Italian following a misunderstanding over an injury earlier this season.
Ironically, a tight hamstring meant he only played the first 45 minutes of the game, but as he headed back to his club hoping to be fit enough to line up against Chelsea at the weekend, Long was already thinking of March's qualifiers against Sweden and Austria.
Asked if he had given Trapattoni something to think about, he said: "I hope so.
"There's a good three or four months now until the next qualifying game, so I have a lot of impression to make in my club games, and hopefully I can do that and impress him even more and cause him a problem for the next game."
Long won his 31st senior cap last night, but only a handful of his starts have come in competitive matches.
The ubiquitous presence of Robbie Keane - Ireland's record goalscorer was not asked to travel from Los Angeles for last night's fixture - has left the Baggies frontman competing with Kevin Doyle, Jon Walters and Simon Cox for the remaining place in the starting line-up over the years, and he also points to a lack of Barclays Premier League experience in the past in mitigation.
He said: "It's been tough. For three out of those five years, I wasn't really starting in the Premier League, and you had the likes of Kevin and Robbie and Jon Walters and people like that playing every week, so I could accept it them.
"But I am slowly pushing my way in there and putting the pressure on the lads to take their starting position.
"It's all about doing it at club level and doing it again on Saturday against Chelsea."
The defeat by the Greeks brought an eventful 2012 for Ireland to a disappointing conclusion, but left Trapattoni at least still in post and planning for the resumption of competitive action next year.
The Republic have played 12 matches and lost five of them - three to Croatia, Spain and Italy at the Euro 2012 finals and, in humiliating fashion, another to Germany last month - and having headed for Poland on the back of a 14-match unbeaten run, that has come as something of a shock.
That run of results was reflected in the attendance last night with the Aviva barely a third full, although Long was philosophical.
He said: "When results don't go your way, the crowd will get frustrated, but it's worked for us for two or three years now and when we are winning, it's all happy days."
Long was not the only man given a chance to impress in last night's game, with Trapattoni handing starting roles to youngsters Seamus Coleman, James McCarthy, James McClean and Robbie Brady, and later answering the clamour to include Norwich playmaker Wes Hoolahan when he introduced him as a half-time substitute.
Hoolahan's club form has won him widespread praise, and Long has been impressed with what he has seen in the last few days.
He said: "He's a very lively player, especially in that role behind the striker.
"He finds positions well - I have obviously witnessed that first hand in the Premier League at Norwich. He's doing it week in, week out, so I am delighted for him to get his call-up.
"Wes came in and did really well, Robbie on the wing has given him something to think about as well.
"Hopefully, there are bright times ahead."


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After almost two years of preparation, Bowman Properties is ready to present its plans for 8200 Germantown Ave. to the community, including the long-anticipated acknowledgement that national grocer The Fresh Market will anchor the new development.
In an application to the Chestnut Hill Community Association's Design Review Committee for its April 19 meeting, Bowman provided details of the plan for the former Magarity Ford site, which includes a mix of residential and retail space.
"We felt this is the pivotal site for Chestnut Hill," said Bowman managing partner Richard Snowden. "We wanted to make sure it reflected Bowman's vision from the Chestnut Hill commercial corridor."
North Carolina-based grocer The Fresh Market is known for its open style, European-market likestores, where selection and quality take precedent over size and quantity.
"It's like the offspring of DiBruno Brothers and Whole Foods," said Chestnut Hill Business Improvement District president and Nauset Group principal Seth Shapiro, who is the consultant and project manager.
The market will occupy two-thirds of the first floor of the commercial development. Retail spaces will front the Avenue while the market's entrance will be from the side parking lot off of Germantown Avenue.
More than 18 months in the planning, the development would create another block of housing on Shawnee Street across from Pastorius Park in the form of nine townhouses. While the design plans are not complete, the homes are expected to be approximately 2,500 square feet and sell for more than a $1 million a piece.
"It's a mixed use development with a strong residential component," said Snowden.
In addition to the townhomes, there will be 14 condominiums above the front retail stores. The condos will average 2,000 square feet and will have parking in an underground garage.
Bowman is seeking to change the zoning classifications on the property. The lot is divided into C-7 and R-5 districts, although it is not divided along any property line. Bowman would like to have the portion of the property along Shawnee Street that is currently zoned R-5 and where the townhomes would be built rezoned as R-10B residential and the rest of the parcel changed to C-3 commercial.
Bowman is also seeking to be exempted from the Germantown Avenue Special District Controls, proposing alternative site-specific controls that are "protective of the neighborhood." Those controls are a special zoning overlay for Germantown Avenue designed to preserve the scale of Avenue development.
Pending approvals, Bowman intends to start construction later this year, with the goal of opening the Fresh Market in late 2012 or early 2013.


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LOS ANGELES (Oct. 3, 2013) --- Delegates to the inaugural SAG-AFTRA National Convention on Saturday unanimously approved an historic resolution recognizing and supporting the union's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members.
The resolution states that SAG-AFTRA stands with LGBT members and fully supports their rights to equal employment opportunity and discrimination-free workplaces. The resolution was submitted jointly by the union's newly-elected national officers, including President Ken Howard, Executive Vice President Gabrielle Carteris, Secretary-Treasurer Amy Aquino, and Vice Presidents Clyde Kusatsu, Mike Hodge, Ilyssa Fradin, David Hartley-Margolin, Robert Newman, Catherine Brown and Dan Navarro. It coincides with the release of results from a ground-breaking first-ever study regarding the experiences of LGBT members in the entertainment industry, which was sponsored by SAG-AFTRA in association with UCLA's The Williams Institute
"This resolution unanimously passed by the convention delegates only reinforces what the study found: our membership community as a whole – regardless of sexual orientation – is aware of and sensitive to the issues SAG-AFTRA LGBT members face every day working in the entertainment industry," said actors and SAG-AFTRA LGBT Committee co-chairs Traci Godfrey and Jason Stuart. "Our members have witnessed discrimination and harassment of LGBT performers and they recognize it is a major issue. We are grateful to the convention delegates for passing this historic resolution and look forward to the next chapter in this process – creating an action plan and implementing it."
The report, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Diversity in Entertainment: Experiences and Perspectives of SAG-AFTRA Members, released Sept. 27, found that LGBT actors face continued discrimination even as workplace opportunities and conditions improve. One-third of the survey respondents – including heterosexual members – believed casting directors, directors and producers are biased against LGBT performers.
SAG-AFTRA has long supported the rights of all performers, regardless of age, sexual orientation or disability. Its diversity committees have worked for years with producers, casting directors and others in the industry to recognize the diversity of the membership, which in turn is a reflection of the American Scene. Much of the union's work in this field has influenced others in the labor movement, most notably the AFL-CIO, which initially at its 2009 Convention, and more recently at its convention in Los Angeles in September, reaffirmed via resolutions its support of LGBT, persons with disabilities (PWDs) and other diverse workers in every union nationwide.
The resolution adopted by the SAG-AFTRA Convention reads:
Resolution 2013-R-36
EEO & Diversity: Support for LGBT Members
WHEREAS, inclusion, diversity and equal employment opportunity are core elements of SAG-AFTRA's mission to improve the lives of its members; and
WHEREAS, on Friday, September 27, 2013, SAG-AFTRA and the UCLA Williams Institute released the results of a groundbreaking, first-ever study of the experiences of SAG-AFTRA's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members in the workplace; and
WHEREAS, that study reflects the supportive attitudes and perspectives of most SAG-AFTRA members; and
WHEREAS, that study demonstrates that many LGBT performers have experienced employment-related discrimination and mistreatment, confirmed by the observations of their non-LGBT peers; and
WHEREAS, the study makes clear that most LGBT performers are still not confident enough to be open with industry decision-makers or the public about their orientation or identity; and
WHEREAS, SAG-AFTRA has both the responsibility and the opportunity to take short, mid, and long-term action to achieve substantial improvements in equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all underrepresented groups, including our LGBT members;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the SAG-AFTRA Inaugural National Convention that SAG-AFTRA stands in support of its lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender members and their right to equal employment opportunity and discrimination-free workplaces; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Convention endorses the commitment of the SAG-AFTRA LGBT Committee to develop short, mid, and long-term action plans and strategies to advance this cause; and
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the Convention acknowledges the extraordinary work of the study team, including the UCLA Williams Institute, researchers M. V. Lee Badgett, Ph.D. and Jody L. Herman Ph.D., the SAG-AFTRA LGBT Committee and staff, and the Screen Actors Guild-Producers Industry Advancement and Cooperative Fund for a generous grant supporting this research.
About SAG-AFTRA
SAG-AFTRA represents more than 165,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other entertainment and media professionals. SAG-AFTRA members are the faces and voices that entertain and inform America and the world. A proud affiliate of the AFL-CIO, SAG-AFTRA has national offices in Los Angeles and New York and local offices nationwide representing members working together to secure the strongest protections for entertainment and media artists into the 21st century and beyond. Visit SAG-AFTRA online at SAGAFTRA.org.
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The "Spring Break Wave" enforcement is funded by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) through a Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) grant.
The STEP grant is administered through H-GAC and provides overtime funds for enhanced DWI holiday enforcement that builds on a year-round speed compliance initiative. Holidays traditionally result in more accidents caused by excessive speed and the consumption of alcohol.
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NBC/WSJ poll: Obama bouncing back
WASHINGTON - What a difference a few weeks can make.
Last month, Republicans were celebrating their midterm victories; Democrats were licking their electoral wounds; and President Barack Obama's approval rating was stuck in the mid-40s.
But after a five-week stretch that included bipartisan legislative achievements in the lame-duck session of Congress, mostly positive economic news and Obama's well-received speech honoring the victims of the tragic shootings in Arizona, the political world has taken an abrupt turn in direction.
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According to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, Obama's approval rating has surged above 50 percent; confidence in the economy also has spiked; and the Democratic Party — but not the GOP — now enjoys a net-positive rating from the American public.
"The last six weeks have been the best six weeks the president has had in his first two years in office," says Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, who conducted the survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff.
But Hart cautions that challenges remain for Obama and the Democrats, with a majority still believing the country is on the wrong track and half disapproving of the president's economic handling.
And both pollsters say these numbers present this question for the president, especially with the 2012 election on the horizon: Is this a transition, or is a transitory moment?
Across-the-board improvement
In the poll, Obama's job-approval rating stands at 53 percent, which is an eight-point jump from last month and represents his highest rating in the survey since July 2009.
The improvement for Obama was across the board: Approval among independents moved from 35 percent in December to 46 percent now; among Democrats, it went from 76 percent to 86 percent; and among Republicans, it went from 11 percent to 15 percent.
"I think that this increase in his job approval is very important," says McInturff, the GOP pollster. "At the same time, these kind of rises have been transitory," he adds, referring to former President Clinton's immediate — but later fleeting — bump in approval after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
The poll also finds that 40 percent of respondents label Obama as a political moderate, compared with 45 percent who see him as a liberal and 11 percent who view him as a conservative. That moderate number is the highest for Obama in the NBC/WSJ poll, even higher than it was before his inauguration.
The survey — which was taken from Jan. 13-17 of 1,000 adults (200 by cell phone), and which has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points — comes after a series of triumphs and positive developments for the Obama White House:
— on Dec. 17, the president signed into law bipartisan legislation extending the Bush-era tax cuts for all income levels, and also extending unemployment benefits and cutting payroll taxes;
— on Dec. 22, he signed into law the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ban on gays serving openly in the military;
— also on Dec. 22, the Senate ratified a nuclear arms-reduction treaty with Russia;
— on Jan. 7, the Labor Department released data showing that the unemployment rate declined from 9.8 percent in November to 9.4 percent in December (although it also showed the economy adding a lower-than-expected 103,000 jobs last month);
— on Jan. 12, the president delivered a well-received speech honoring the victims from the shootings in Arizona. (The poll finds that 74 percent approve of his handling of the tragedy.)
McInturff says it's unclear how much Obama's increase can be attributed to each of these events since the last poll, which was conducted Dec. 9-13. "It's beyond my pay grade to sort out how much is lame duck, how much is Arizona," he said.
How long will it last?
What is clear, though, is that Obama will ride into his State of the Union address next week in a stronger position than many would have thought after November, when the Republican Party won control of the U.S. House and picked up seats in the U.S. Senate.
"This is a person who will walk in the hall with a great deal of confidence and with the wind at his back," says Hart.
But how long will it last? The poll shows plenty of tests for Obama and his administration. For instance, 45 percent approve of his economic handling (up three points), but 50 percent disapprove.
What's more, 56 percent think the country is on the wrong track, although that's a seven-point drop from last month.
And a combined 82 percent say the war in Afghanistan has either gotten worse or stayed the same, with another 71 percent believing the U.S. will ultimately have to withdraw and leave the country without a stable democratic government.
The GOP's short honeymoon
Republicans have now been in control of the House for less than two weeks, but the survey suggests an abbreviated honeymoon for the GOP.
Just 25 percent say that the Republicans in Congress will bring "the right kind of change" to the country. That's compared with 42 percent who said that after Democrats took over the House in 2007, and 37 percent who said that after Republicans gained control in 1995.
In addition, a majority (55 percent) believe congressional Republicans will be too inflexible in dealing with President Obama, while an equal number (55 percent) say Obama will strike the right balance.
On House Republicans' goal to repeal Obama's health care law — an effort that cleared the chamber on Wednesday — 45 percent support eliminating the law and 46 percent oppose the GOP effort.
And attitudes about the Republican Party have declined, with 34 percent viewing the GOP positively and 40 percent negatively — down from its 38-37 percent favorable/unfavorable rating last month.
By comparison, the Democratic Party's fav/unfav in the current poll is 39-35 percent, up from its 37-41 percents score from last month.
"I think this has been a pretty short Republican honeymoon," McInturff says.
Adds Hart: "I think the president has the benefit of the doubt, and the Republicans — based on this data — have the burden of proof."
Handicapping 2012
In the emerging — and very early — race for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee lead the hypothetical pack, with Romney the first choice of 19 percent of Republicans and independents, and Huckabee at 18 percent.
They are followed by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (at 14 percent), former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (at 10 percent), Texas Congressman Ron Paul (at 8 percent) and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (at 5 percent).
In hypothetical general-election contests, the poll shows Obama leading Huckabee by 10 points, 51 to 41 percent, and Gingrich by 19 points, 54 to 35 percent. The December NBC/WSJ poll had the president leading Romney by seven points and Palin by 22 points.
On the economy, Arizona and Palin
In other poll findings:
— 40 percent believe the U.S. economy will improve in the next 12 months, up eight points from December;
— 53 percent think the United States will be better off five years from now, which is up 16 points from last August;
— only 24 percent say that extreme political rhetoric contributed to the shootings in Arizona, while 71 percent say it was an isolated incident caused by a disturbed person;
— and Palin's favorable/unfavorable rating stands at 27-49 percent, with her favorable score tying its lowest-ever point in the survey.


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This chapter includes the following sections:
The WebLogic Server EJB 3.2 programming model uses the Java EE 7 metadata annotations feature in which you create an annotated EJB 3.2 bean file, compile the class with the standard Java compiler, and the resulting class can then be packaged into a target module for deployment. At runtime, WebLogic Server parses the annotations and applies the required behavioral aspects to the bean file.
To reduce deployment time, you can also use the WebLogic compile tool
weblogic.appc (or its Ant equivalent
wlappc) to pre-compile a deployable archive file, (WAR, JAR, or EAR). Precompiling with
weblogic.appc generates certain helper classes and performs validation checks to ensure your application is compliant.
The annotated 3.2 bean file is the core of your EJB. It contains the Java code that determines how your EJB behaves. The 3.2 bean file is an ordinary Java class file that implements an EJB business interface that outlines the business methods of your EJB. You then annotate the bean file with JDK metadata annotations to specify the shape and characteristics of the EJB, document your EJB, and provide special services such as enhanced business-level security or special business logic during runtime.
See Complete List of Metadata Annotations By Function for a breakdown of the annotations you can specify in a bean file, by function. These annotations include those described by the following specifications:
Enterprise JavaBeans 3.2 Specification (JSR-345) at
Common Annotations for the Java Platform (JSR-250) at
See EJB Metadata Annotations Reference, for reference information about the annotations, listed in alphabetical order. This topic is part of the iterative development procedure for creating an EJB 3.2, described in Iterative Development of Enterprise JavaBeans.
For more information on general EJB design and architecture, see the following documents:
Enterprise JavaBeans web site at
Introducing the Java EE 6 Platform: Part 3 (EJB Technology, Even Easier to Use) at
The Java EE 7 Tutorial at
The requirements for programming the EJB 3.2 bean class file are essentially the same as the EJB 2.x requirements. This section briefly describes the basic mandatory requirements of the bean class, mostly for overview purposes, as well as changes in requirements between EJB 2.x and EJB 3.2.
See Developing Enterprise JavaBeans, Version 2.1, for Oracle WebLogic Server for detailed information about the mandatory and optional requirements for programming the bean class.
The following bullets list the EJB 3.2 requirements for programming a bean class, as well as the EJB 2.x requirements that no longer apply:
The class must specify its bean type, typically using one of the following metadata annotations, although you can also override this using a deployment descriptor:
Oracle Kodo JPA/JDO is not supported in this release of WebLogic Server. However, if you still using Oracle Kodo, programming a 3.0 entity bean (
@javax.ejb.Entity) is discussed in a separate document.
Customers are encouraged to use Oracle TopLink, which supports JPA 2.1. Kodo supports only JPA 1.0. For more information, see Using Oracle TopLink in Oracle WebLogic Server.
If the bean is a session bean, the bean class can implement either:
The no-interface local client view type, which simplifies EJB development by providing local session bean access without requiring a separate local business interface. (As of EJB 3.2, MDBs can also use the no-interface local client view.)
The bean's business interface(s) or the methods of the bean's business interface(s), if any.
Session beans no longer need to implement
javax.ejb.SessionBean, which means the bean no longer needs to implement the
ejbXXX() methods, such as
ejbPassivate(), and so on.
Stateful session beans no longer need to implement
Message-driven beans no longer need to implement
The following requirements are the same as in EJB 2.x and are provided only as a brief overview:
The class must be defined as
public, must not be
final, and must not be
abstract. The class must be a top level class.
The class must have a
public constructor that takes no parameters.
The class must not define the
finalize() method.
If the bean is message-driven, the bean class must implement, directly or indirectly, the message listener interface required by the messaging type that it supports or the methods of the message listener interface. In the case of JMS, this is the
javax.jms.MessageListener interface.
The method requirements have not changed since EJB 2.x and are provided in this section for a brief overview only.
The requirements for programming the session bean class' methods (that implement the business interface methods) are as follows:
The method names can be arbitrary.
The business method must be declared as
public and must not be
final or
The argument and return value types for a method must be legal types for RMI/IIOP if the method corresponds to a business method on the session bean's remote business interface or remote interface.
throws clause may define arbitrary application exceptions.
The requirements for programming the message-driven bean class' methods are as follows:
The methods must implement the listener methods of the message listener interface.
The methods must be declared as
public and must not be
final or
The sections that follow provide the recommended steps when programming the annotated EJB 3.2 class file.
Specifying the Bean Type (Stateless, Singleton, Stateful, or Message-Driven)
Injecting Resource Dependency into a Variable or Setter Method
Specifying Interceptors for Business Methods or Life Cycle Callback Events
The following procedure describes the typical basic steps when programming the 3.2 bean file for a EJB. The steps you follow depends, of course, on what your EJB does.
Refer to Simple Enterprise JavaBeans Examples, for code examples of the topics discussed in the remaining sections.
javax.ejb package, the interceptor annotations are in the
javax.interceptor package, the annotations to invoke a 3.2 entity are in the
javax.persistence package, and the common annotations are in the
javax.common or
javax.common.security packages. For example:
import javax.ejb.Stateless; import javax.ejb.TransactionAttribute; import javax.interceptor.ExcludeDefaultInterceptors;
EntityManager object and use the entity annotations to inject entity information.
See Programming Application Exceptions for EJB 3.2 specific information.
The EJB 3.x local or remote client of a session bean written to the EJB 3.x API accesses a session bean through its business interface. A local client may also access a session bean through a no-interface view that exposes all public methods of the bean class.
There are two ways you can specify the business interface for the EJB bean class:
By explicitly implementing the business interface, using the
implements Java keyword.
By using metadata annotations (such as
javax.ejb.Local and
javax.ejb.Remote) to specify the business interface. In this case, the bean class does not need to explicitly implement the business interface.
Typically, if an EJB bean class implements an interface, it is assumed to be the business interface of the EJB. Additionally, the business interface is assumed to be the local interface unless you explicitly denote it as the remote interface, either by using the
javax.ejb.Remote annotation or updating the appropriate EJB deployment descriptor. You can specify the
javax.ejb.Remote annotation. as well as the
javax.ejb.Local annotation, in either the business interface itself, or the bean class that implements the interface.
A bean class can have more than one interface. In this case (excluding the interfaces listed below), you must specify the business interface of the EJB by explicitly using the
javax.ejb.Local or
javax.ejb.Remote annotations in either the business interface itself, the bean class that implements the business interface, or the appropriate deployment descriptor.
The following interfaces are excluded when determining whether the bean class has more than one interface:
Any of the interfaces defined by the
javax.ejb package
The following code snippet shows how to specify the business interface of a bean class by explicitly implementing the interface:
public class ServiceBean implements Service
For the full example, see Example of a Simple Business Interface Stateless EJB.
Client access to an enterprise bean that exposes a local, no-interface view is accomplished through either dependency injection or JNDI lookup. As of EJB 3.2, MDBs can also use the no-interface local client view.
To obtain a reference to the no-interface view of an enterprise bean through dependency injection, use the
javax.ejb.EJB annotation and specify the enterprise bean's implementation class:
@EJB ExampleBean exampleBean;
To obtain a reference to the no-interface view of an enterprise bean through JNDI lookup, use the javax.naming.InitialContext interface's lookup method:
ExampleBean exampleBean = (ExampleBean) InitialContext.lookup("java:module/ExampleBean");
Clients do not use the new operator to obtain a new instance of an enterprise bean that uses a no-interface view.
There are code examples of using the No-interface client view bundled in the WebLogic Server distribution kit. See EJB 3.1: Example of Simplified No-interface Programming and Packaging in a WAR File and EJB 3.2: Example of a Message-Driven Bean with No-Methods Listener.
For more detailed information about the implementing the no-interface client view, see "Accessing Local Enterprise Beans Using the No-Interface View" in the "Enterprise Beans" chapter of the Java EE 7 Tutorial at
There is only one required metadata annotation in a 3.2 bean class: an annotation that specifies the type of bean you are programing. You must specify one, and only one, of the following:
@javax.ejb.Stateless—Specifies that you are programming a stateless session bean.
@javax.ejb.Singleton—Specifies that you are programming a singleton session bean.
@javax.ejb.Stateful—Specifies that you are programming a stateful session bean.
@javax.ejb.MessageDriven—Specifies that you are programming a message-driven bean.
Oracle Kodo JPA/JDO is not supported in this release of WebLogic Server. However, if you still using Oracle Kodo, programming a 3.0 entity bean (
@javax.ejb.Entity) is discussed in a separate document.
Customers are encouraged to use Oracle TopLink, which supports JPA 2.1. Kodo supports only JPA 1.0. For more information, see Using Oracle TopLink in Oracle WebLogic Server.
Although not required, you can specify attributes of the annotations to further describe the bean type. For example, you can set the following attributes for all bean types:
name—Name of the bean class; the default value is the unqualified bean class name.
mappedName—Product-specific name of the bean.
description—Description of what the bean does.
If you are programming a message-driven bean, then you can specify the following optional attributes:
messageListenerInterface—Specifies the message listener interface, if you haven't explicitly implemented it or if the bean implements additional interfaces.
activationConfig—Specifies an array of activation configuration name-value pairs that configure the bean in its operational environment.
The following code snippet shows how to specify that a bean is a stateless session bean:
@Stateless public class ServiceBean implements Service
For the full example, see Example of a Simple Business Interface Stateless EJB.
Dependency injection is when the EJB container automatically supplies (or injects) a bean's variable or setter method with a reference to a resource or another environment entry in the bean's context. Dependency injection is simply an easier-to-program alternative to using the
javax.ejb.EJBContext interface or JNDI APIs to look up resources.
You specify dependency injection by annotating a variable or setter method with one of the following annotations, depending on the type of resource you want to inject:
@javax.ejb.EJB—Specifies a dependency on another EJB.
@javax.annotation.Resource—Specifies a dependency on an external resource, such as a JDBC datasource or a JMS destination or connection factory.
This annotation is not specific to EJB; rather, it is part of the common set of metadata annotations used by many different types of Java EE components.
Both annotations have an equivalent grouping annotation to specify a dependency on multiple resources (
@javax.ejb.EJBs and
Although not required, you can specify attributes to these dependency annotations to explicitly describe the dependent resource. The amount of information you need to specify depends upon its usage context and how much information the EJB container can infer from that context. See javax.ejb.EJB and javax.annotation.Resource for detailed information on the attributes and when you should specify them.
The following code snippet shows how to use the
@javax.ejb.EJB annotation to inject a dependency on an EJB into a variable; only the relevant parts of the bean file are shown:
package examples; import javax.ejb.EJB; ... @Stateful public class AccountBean implements Account { @EJB(beanName="ServiceBean") private Service service; ... public void sayHelloFromAccountBean() { service.sayHelloFromServiceBean(); }
In the preceding example, the private variable
service is annotated with the
@javax.ejb.EJB annotation, which makes reference to the EJB with a bean name of
ServiceBean. The data type of the service variable is
Service, which is the business interface implemented by the
ServiceBean bean class. As soon as the EJB container creates the
AccountBean EJB, the container injects a reference to
ServiceBean into the
service variable; the variable then has direct access to all the business methods of
SessionBean, as shown in the
sayHelloFromAccountBean method implementation in which the
sayHelloFromServiceBean method is invoked.
This section describes how to invoke and update a 3.0 entity from within a session bean.
Oracle TopLink, a JPA 2.1 persistence provider, is the default JPA provider, replacing Kodo, which was the default provider in previous releases. Any application that does not specify a JPA provider in
persistence.xml will now use TopLink by default. For more information, see Configuring the Persistence Provider in Oracle WebLogic Server.
An entity is a persistent object that represents datastore records; typically an instance of an entity represents a single row of a database table. Entities make it easy to query and update information in a persistent store from within another Java EE component, such as a session bean. A
Person entity, for example, might include
address, and
age fields, each of which correspond to the columns of a table in a database. Using an
javax.persistence.EntityManager object to access and manage the entities, you can easily retrieve a
Person record, based on either their unique id or by using a SQL query, and then change the information and automatically commit the information to the underlying datastore.
The following sections describe the typical programming tasks you perform in your session bean to interact with entities:
In your session bean, use the following metadata annotations inject entity information into a variable:
@javax.persistence.PersistenceContext—Injects a persistence context into a variable of data type
javax.persistence.EntityManager. A persistence context is simply a set of entities such that, for any persistent identity, there is a unique entity instance. The
persistence.xml file defines and names the persistence contexts available to a session bean.
@javax.persistence.PersistenceContexts—Specifies a set of multiple persistence contexts.
@javax.persistence.PersistenceUnit—Injects a persistence context into a variable of data type
@javax.persistence.PersistenceUnits—Specifies a set of multiple persistence contexts.
@PersistenceContext and
@PersistenceUnit annotations perform a similar function: inject persistence context information into a variable; the main difference is the data type of the instance into which you inject the information. If you prefer to have full control over the life cycle of the
EntityManager in your session bean, then use
@PersistenceUnit to inject into an
EntityManagerFactory instance, and then write the code to manually create an
EntityManager and later destroy when you are done, to release resources. If you prefer that the EJB container manage the life cycle of the
EntityManager, then use the
@PersistenceContext annotation to inject directly into an
The following example shows how to inject a persistence context into the variable
em of data type
EntityManager; relevant code is shown in bold:
package examples; import javax.ejb.Stateless; import javax.persistence.PersistenceContext; import javax.persistence.EntityManager; @Stateless public class ServiceBean implements Service { @PersistenceContext private EntityManager em; ...
Once you have instantiated an
EntityManager object, you can use its methods to interact with the entities in the persistence context. This section discusses the methods used to identify and manage the life cycle of an entity; see Using Oracle TopLink in Oracle WebLogic Server. for additional uses of the
EntityManager, such as transaction management, caching, and so on.
For clarity, this section assumes that the entities are configured such that they represent actual rows in a database table.
Use the
EntityManager.find() method to find a row in a table based on its primary key. The
find method takes two parameters: the entity class that you are querying, such as
Person.class, and the primary key value for the particular row you want to retrieve. Once you retrieve the row, you can use standard
getXXX methods to get particular properties of the entity. The following code snippet shows how to retrieve a
Person with whose primary key value is
10, and then get their address:
public List<Person> findPerson () {
Person p = em.find(Person.class, 10);
Address a = p.getAddress();
Query q = em.createQuery("select p from Person p where p.name = :name");
q.setParameter("name", "Patrick");
List<Person> l = (List<Person>) q.getResultList();
return l;
The preceding example also shows how to use the
EntityManager.createQuery() method to create a
Query object that contains a custom SQL query; by contrast, the
EntityManager.find() method allows you to query using only the table's primary key. In the example, the table is queried for all
Persons whose first name is
Patrick; the resulting set of rows populates the
List<Person> object and is returned to the
findPerson() invoker.
To create a new entity instance (and thus add a new row to the database), use the
EntityManager.persist method, as shown in the following code snippet
@TransactionAttribute(REQUIRED) public Person createNewPerson(String name, int age) { Person p = new Person(name, age); em.persist(p); // register the new object with the database Address a = new Address(); p.setAddress(a); em.persist(a); // depending on how things are configured, this may or // may not be required return p; }
Whenever you create or update an entity, you must be in a transaction, which is why the
@TransactionAttribute annotation in the preceding example is set to
The preceding example shows how to create a new Person, based on parameters passed to the
createNewPerson method, and then call the
EntityManager.persist method to automatically add the row to the database table.
The preceding example also shows how to update the newly-created
Person entity (and thus new table row) with an
Address by using the
setAddress() entity method. Depending on the cascade configuration of the
Person entity, the second
persist() call may not be necessary; this is because the call to the
setAddress() method might have automatically triggered an update to the database. For more information about cascading operations, see Using Oracle TopLink in Oracle WebLogic Server.
If you use the
EntityManager.find() method to find an entity instance, and then use a
setXXX method to change a property of the entity, the database is automatically updated and you do not need to explicitly call the
EntityManager.persist() method, as shown in the following code snippet:
@TransactionAttribute(REQUIRED) public Person changePerson(int id, int newAge) { Person p = em.find(Person.class, id); p.setAge(newAge); return p; }
In the preceding example, the call to the
Person.setAge() method automatically triggered an update to the appropriate row in the database table.
Finally, you can use the
EntityManager.merge() method to quickly and easily update a row in the database table based on an update to an entity made by a client, as shown in the following example:
@TransactionAttribute(REQUIRED) public Person applyOfflineChanges(Person pDTO) { return em.merge(pDTO); }
In the example, the
applyOfflineChanges() method is a business method of the session bean that takes as a parameter a
Person, which has been previously created by the session bean client. When you pass this
Person to the
EntityManager.merge() method, the EJB container automatically finds the existing row in the database table and automatically updates the row with the new data. The
merge() method then returns a copy of this updated row.
An interceptor is a method that intercepts a business method invocation or a life cycle callback event. There are two types of interceptors: those that intercept business methods and those that intercept life cycle callback methods.
Interceptors can be specified for session and message-driven beans.
You can program an interceptor method inside the bean class itself, or in a separate interceptor class which you then associate with the bean class with the
@javax.interceptor.Interceptors annotation. You can create multiple interceptor methods that execute as a chain in a particular order.
Interceptor instances may hold state. The life cycle of an interceptor instance is the same as that of the bean instance with which it is associated. Interceptors can invoke JNDI, JDBC, JMS, other enterprise beans, and the EntityManager. Interceptor methods share the JNDI name space of the bean for which they are invoked. Programming restrictions that apply to enterprise bean components to apply to interceptors as well.
Interceptors are configured using metadata annotations in the
javax.interceptor package, as described in later sections.
The following topics discuss how to actually program interceptors for your bean class:
Specifying Business or Life Cycle Interceptors: Typical Steps
Saving State Across Interceptors With the InvocationContext API
The following procedure provides the typical steps to specify and program interceptors for your bean class.
See Example of a Simple Stateful EJB for an example of specifying interceptors and Example of an Interceptor Class for an example of programming an interceptor class.
Decide whether interceptor methods are programmed in bean class or in a separate interceptor class.
If you decide to program the interceptor methods in a separate interceptor class
Program the class, as described in Programming the Interceptor Class.
In your bean class, use the
@javax.interceptor.Interceptors annotation to associate the interceptor class with the bean class. The method in the interceptor class annotated with the
@javax.interceptor.AroundInvoke annotation then becomes a business method interceptor method of the bean class. Similarly, the methods annotated with the life cycle callback annotations become the life cycle callback interceptor methods of the bean class.
You can specify any number of interceptor classes for a given bean class—the order in which they execute is the order in which they are listed in the annotation. If you specify the interceptor class at the class-level, the interceptor methods apply to all appropriate bean class methods. If you specify the interceptor class at the method-level, the interceptor methods apply to only the annotated method.
In the bean class or interceptor class (wherever you are programming the interceptor methods), program business method interceptor methods, as described in Programming Business Method Interceptor Methods.
In the bean class or interceptor class (wherever you are programming the interceptor methods), program life cycle callback interceptor methods, as described in Programming Business Method Interceptor Methods.
In the bean class, optionally annotate methods with the
@javax.interceptor.ExcludeClassInterceptors annotation to exclude any interceptors defined at the class-level.
In the bean class, optionally annotate the class or methods with the
@javax.interceptor.ExcludeDefaultInterceptors annotation to exclude any default interceptors that you might define later. Default interceptors are configured in the
ejb-jar.xml deployment descriptor, and apply to all EJBs in the JAR file, unless you explicitly use the annotation to exclude them.
Optionally specify default interceptors for the entire EJB JAR file, as described in Specifying Default Interceptor Methods.
The interceptor class is a plain Java class that includes the interceptor annotations to specify which methods intercept business methods and which intercept life cycle callback methods.
Interceptor classes support dependency injection, which is performed when the interceptor class instance is created, using the naming context of the associated enterprise bean.
You must include a public no-argument constructor.
You can have any number of methods in the interceptor class, but restrictions apply as to how many methods can be annotated with the interceptor annotations, as described in the following sections.
For an example, see Example of an Interceptor Class.
You specify business method interceptor methods by annotating them with the
@AroundInvoke annotation.
An interceptor class or bean class can have only one method annotated with
@AroundInvoke. To specify that multiple interceptor methods execute for a given business method, you must associate multiple interceptor classes with the bean file, in addition to optionally specifying an interceptor method in the bean file itself. The order in which the interceptor methods execute is the order in which the associated interceptor classes are listed in the
@Interceptor annotation. Interceptor methods in the bean class itself execute after those defined in the interceptor classes.
You cannot annotate a business method itself with the
@AroundInvoke annotation.
The signature of an
@AroundInvoke method must be:
Object <METHOD>(InvocationContext) throws Exception
The method annotated with the
@AroundInvoke annotation must always call
InvocationContext.proceed() or neither the business method will be invoked nor any subsequent
@AroundInvoke methods. See Saving State Across Interceptors With the InvocationContext API for additional information about the
InvocationContext API.
Business method interceptor method invocations occur within the same transaction and security context as the business method for which they are invoked. Business method interceptor methods may throw runtime exceptions or application exceptions that are allowed in the
throws clause of the business method.
For an example, see Example of an Interceptor Class.
Session beans can implement asynchronous methods, business methods where control is returned to the client by the enterprise bean container before the method is invoked on the session bean instance. Clients may then use the Java SE concurrency API to retrieve the result, cancel the invocation, and check for exceptions. Asynchronous methods are typically used for long-running operations, for processor-intensive tasks, for background tasks, to increase application throughput, or to improve application response time if the method invocation result isn't required immediately.
When a session bean client invokes a typical non-asynchronous business method, control is not returned to the client until the method has completed. Clients calling asynchronous methods, however, immediately have control returned to them by the enterprise bean container. This allows the client to perform other tasks while the method invocation completes. If the method returns a result, the result is an implementation of the
java.util.concurrent.Future<V> interface, where "V" is the result value type. The
Future<V> interface defines methods the client may use to check if the computation is completed, wait for the invocation to complete, retrieve the final result, and cancel the invocation.
Asynchronous method invocation semantics only apply to the no-interface, local business, and remote business client views. Methods exposed through the EJB 2.x local, EJB 2.x remote, and Web service client views must not be designated as asynchronous.
For detailed instructions on creating an asynchronous business method, see "Asynchronous Method Invocation" in the "Enterprise Beans" chapter of the Java EE 7 Tutorial at
You specify a method to be a life cycle callback interceptor method so that it can receive notification of life cycle events from the EJB container. Life cycle events include creation, passivation, and destruction of the bean instance.
You can name the life cycle callback interceptor method anything you want; this is different from the EJB 2.x programming model in which you had to name the methods
ejbPassivate(), and so on.
You use the following life cycle interceptor annotations to specify that a method is a life cycle callback interceptor method:
@javax.ejb.PrePassivate—Specifies the method that the EJB container notifies when it is about to passivate a stateful session bean.
@javax.ejb.PostActivate—Specifies the method that the EJB container notifies right after it has reactivated a stateful session bean.
@javax.annotation.PostConstruct—Specifies the method that the EJB container notifies before it invokes the first business method and after it has done dependency injection. You typically apply this annotation to the method that performs initialization.
This annotation is in the
javax.annotation package, rather than
@javax.annotation.PreDestroy—Specifies the method that the EJB container notifies right before it destroys the bean instance. You typically apply this annotation to the method that release resources that the bean class has been holding.
This annotation is in the
javax.annotation package, rather than
You use the preceding annotations the same way, whether the annotated method is in the bean class or in a separate interceptor class. You can annotate the same method with more than one annotation.
You can also specify any subset or combination of life cycle callback annotations in the bean class or in an associated interceptor class. However, the same callback annotation may not be specified more than once in a given class. If you do specify a callback annotation more than once in a given class, the EJB will not deploy.
To specify that multiple interceptor methods execute for a given life cycle callback event, you must associate multiple interceptor classes with the bean file, in addition to optionally specifying the life cycle callback interceptor method in the bean file itself. The order in which the interceptor methods execute is the order in which the associated classes are listed in the
@Interceptor annotation. Interceptor methods in the bean class itself execute after those defined in the interceptor classes.
The signature of the annotated methods depends on where the method is defined:
Life cycle callback methods defined on a bean class have the following signature:
void <METHOD>()
Life cycle callback methods defined on an interceptor class have the following signature:
void <METHOD>(InvocationContext)
See Saving State Across Interceptors With the InvocationContext API for additional information about the
InvocationContext API.
See javax.ejb.PostActivate, javax.ejb.PrePassivate, javax.annotation.PostConstruct, and javax.annotation.PreDestroy for additional requirements when programming the life cycle interceptor class.
For an example, see Example of an Interceptor Class.
Default interceptor methods apply to all components in a particular EJB JAR file or exploded directory, and thus can only be configured in the
ejb-jar.xml deployment descriptor file and not with metadata annotations, which apply to a particular EJB.
The EJB container invokes default interceptor methods, if any, before all other interceptors defined for an EJB (both business and life cycle). If you do not want the EJB container to invoke the default interceptors for a particular EJB, specify the class-level
@javax.interceptor.ExcludeDefaultInterceptors annotation in the bean file.
In the
ejb-jar.xml file, use the
<interceptor-binding> child element of
<assembly-descriptor> to specify default interceptors. In particular, set the
<ejb-name> child element to
*, which means the class applies to all EJBs, and then the
<interceptor-class> child element to the name of the interceptor class.
The following snippet from an
ejb-jar.xml file shows how to specify the default interceptor class
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <ejb-jar version="3.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/ejb-jar_3_0.xsd"> ... <assembly-descriptor> ... <interceptor-binding> <ejb-name>*</ejb-name> <interceptor-class>org.mycompany.DefaultIC</interceptor-class> </interceptors> </assembly-descriptor> </ejb-jar>
Use the
javax.interceptor.InvocationContext API to pass state information between the interceptors that execute for a given business method or life cycle callback. The EJB Container passes the same
InvocationContext instance to each interceptor method, so you can, for example save information when the first business method interceptor method executes, and then retrieve this information for all subsequent interceptor methods that execute for this business method. The
InvocationContext instance is not shared between business method or life cycle callback invocations.
All interceptor methods must have an
InvocationContext parameter. You can then use the methods of the
InvocationContext interface to get and set context information. The
InvocationContext interface is shown below:
public interface InvocationContext { public Object getBean(); public Method getMethod(); public Object[] getParameters(); public void setParameters(Object[]); public java.util.Map getContextData(); public Object proceed() throws Exception; }
getBean method returns the bean instance. The
getMethod method returns the name of the business method for which the interceptor method was invoked; in the case of life cycle callback interceptor methods,
getMethod returns null.
proceed method causes the invocation of the next interceptor method in the chain, or the business method itself if called from the last
@AroundInvoke interceptor method.
For an example of using
InvocationContext, see Example of an Interceptor Class.
If you specified in the business interface that a method throws an application method, then you must program the exception as a separate class from the bean class.
Use the
@javax.ejb.ApplicationException annotation to specify that an exception class is an application exception thrown by a business method of the EJB. The EJB container reports the exception directly to the client in the event of the application error.
Use the
rollback Boolean attribute of the
@ApplicationException annotation to specify whether the application error causes the current transaction to be rolled back. By default, the current transaction is not rolled back in event of the error.
You can annotate both checked and unchecked exceptions with this annotation.
The following
ProcessingException.java file shows how to use the
@ApplicationException annotation to specify that an exception class is an application exception thrown by one of the business methods of the EJB:
package examples; import javax.ejb.ApplicationException; /** * Application exception class thrown when there was a processing error * with a business method of the EJB. Annotated with the * @ApplicationException annotation. */ @ApplicationException() public class ProcessingException extends Exception { /** * Catches exceptions without a specified string * */ public ProcessingException() {} /** * Constructs the appropriate exception with the specified string * * @param message Exception message */ public ProcessingException(String message) {super(message);} }
By default, any user can invoke the public methods of an EJB. If you want to restrict access to the EJB, you can use the following security-related annotations to specify the roles that are allowed to invoke all, or a subset, of the methods:
javax.annotation.security.DeclareRoles—Explicitly lists the security roles that will be used to secure the EJB.
javax.annotation.security.RolesAllowed—Specifies the security roles that are allowed to invoke all the methods of the EJB (when specified at the class-level) or a particular method (when specified at the method-level.)
javax.annotation.security.DenyAll—Specifies that the annotated method can not be invoked by any role.
javax.annotation.security.PermitAll—Specifies that the annotated method can be invoked by all roles.
javax.annotation.security.RunAs—Specifies the role which runs the EJB. By default, the EJB runs as the user who actually invokes it.
The preceding annotations can be used with many Java EE components that allow metadata annotations, not just EJB 3.2.
You create security roles and map users to roles using the WebLogic Server Administration Console to update your security realm. For details, see Manage Security Roles in the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console Online Help.
The following example shows a simple stateless session EJB that uses all of the security-related annotations; the code in bold is discussed after the example:
package examples; import javax.ejb.Stateless; import javax.annotation.security.DeclareRoles; import javax.annotation.security.PermitAll; import javax.annotation.security.DenyAll; import javax.annotation.security.RolesAllowed; import javax.annotation.security.RunAs; /** * Bean file that implements the Service business interface. */ @Stateless @DeclareRoles( { "admin", "hr" } ) @RunAs ("admin") public class ServiceBean implements Service { @RolesAllowed ( {"admin", "hr"} ) public void sayHelloRestricted() { System.out.println("Only some roles can invoke this method."); } @DenyAll public void sayHelloSecret() { System.out.println("No one can invoke this method."); } @PermitAll public void sayHelloPublic() { System.out.println("Everyone can invoke this method."); } }
The main points to note about the preceding example are:
Import the security-related metadata annotations:
import javax.annotation.security.DeclareRoles; import javax.annotation.security.PermitAll; import javax.annotation.security.DenyAll; import javax.annotation.security.RolesAllowed; import javax.annotation.security.RunAs;
The class-level
@DeclareRoles annotation explicitly specifies that the
admin and
hr security roles will later be used to secure some or all of the methods. This annotation is not required; any security role referenced in, for example, the
@RolesReferenced annotation is implicitly declared. However, explicitly declaring the security roles makes your code easier to read and understand.
The class-level
@RunAs annotation specifies that, regardless of the user who actually invokes a particular method of the EJB, the EJB container runs the method as the
admin role, assuming, of course, that the original user is allowed to invoke the method.
@RolesAllowed annotation on the
sayHelloRestricted method specifies that only users mapped to the
admin and
hr roles are allowed to invoke the method.
@DenyAll annotation on the
sayHelloSecret method specifies that no one is allowed to invoke the method.
@PermitAll annotation on the
sayHelloPublic method specifies that all users mapped to any roles are allowed to invoke the method.
By default, the EJB container invokes a business method within a transaction context. Additionally, the EJB container itself decides whether to commit or rollback a transaction; this is called container-managed transaction demarcation.
You can change this default behavior by using the following annotations in your bean file:
javax.ejb.TransactionManagement—Specifies whether the EJB container or the bean file manages the demarcation of transactions. If you specify that the bean file manages it, then you must program transaction management in your bean file, typically using the Java Transaction API (JTA).
javax.ejb.TransactionAttribute—Specifies whether the EJB container invokes methods within a transaction.
For an example of using the
javax.ejb.TransactionAttribute annotation, see Example of a Simple Stateful EJB.
The tables in the sections that follow group the annotations based on what task they perform. EJB Metadata Annotations Reference, provides full reference information about the EJB 3.2 metadata annotations in alphabetical order.
The following summarize the annotations used to specify the bean type.
Table 5-1 Annotations to Specify the Bean Type
Specifies that the bean class is a stateless session bean. For more information, see javax.ejb.Stateless.
Specifies that the bean class is a singleton session bean. For more information, see javax.ejb.Singleton.
Specifies that the bean class is a stateful session bean. For more information, see javax.ejb.Startup.
Specifies the correspondence of a stateful session bean class method with a
Specifies a remove method of a stateful session bean. For more information, see javax.ejb.Remove.
Specifies that the bean class is a message-driven bean. For more information, see javax.ejb.MessageDriven.
Specifies properties used to configure a message-driven bean in its operational environment. For more information, see javax.ejb.ActivationConfigProperty.
The following summarize the annotations used to specify the local or remote interfaces.
Table 5-2 Annotations to Specify the Local or Remote Interfaces
Specifies a local interface of the bean. For more information, see javax.ejb.Local.
Specifies a remote interface of the bean. For more information, see javax.ejb.Remote.
The following summarize the annotations used to support EJB 2.x client view.
Table 5-3 Annotations to Support EJB 2.x Client View
Specifies a local home interface of the bean. For more information, see javax.ejb.LocalHome.
Specifies a remote home interface of the bean. For more information, see javax.ejb.RemoteHome.
The following summarize the annotations used to invoke a 3.0 entity bean.
Table 5-4 Annotations to Invoke a 3.0 Entity Bean
Specifies a dependency on an
Specifies one or more
Specifies a dependency on an
Specifies one or more
The following summarize the annotations used for transactions.
Table 5-5 Transaction-Related Annotations
Specifies the transaction management demarcation type (container- or bean-managed). For more information, see javax.ejb.TransactionManagement.
Specifies whether a business method is invoked within the context of a transaction. For more information, see javax.ejb.TransactionManagement.
The following summarize the annotations used to specify interceptors.
Table 5-6 Annotations to Specify Interceptors
Specifies the list of interceptor classes associated with a bean class or method. For more information, see javax.interceptor.Interceptors.
Specifies an interceptor method. For more information, see javax.interceptor.AroundInvoke.
Specifies that, when the annotated method is invoked, the class-level interceptors should not invoke. For more information, see javax.interceptor.ExcludeClassInterceptors.
Specifies that, when the annotated method is invoked, the default interceptors should not invoke. For more information, see javax.interceptor.ExcludeDefaultInterceptors.
The following summarize the annotations used to specify life cycle callbacks.
Table 5-7 Annotations to Specify Life Cycle Callbacks
Designates a method to receive a callback after a stateful session bean has been activated. For more information, see javax.ejb.PostActivate.
Designates a method to receive a callback before a stateful session bean is passivated. For more information, see javax.ejb.PrePassivate.
Specifies the method that needs to be executed after dependency injection is done to perform any initialization. For more information, see javax.annotation.PostConstruct.
Specifies a method to be a callback notification to signal that the instance is in the process of being removed by the container. For more information, see javax.annotation.PreDestroy.
The following metadata annotations are not specific to EJB 3.2, but rather, are general security-related annotations in the
javax.annotation.security package.
Table 5-8 Security-Related Annotations
Specifies the references to security roles in the bean class. For more information, see javax.annotation.security.DeclareRoles.
Specifies the list of security roles that are allowed to invoke the bean's business methods. For more information, see javax.annotation.security.RolesAllowed.
Specifies that all security roles are allowed to invoke the method. For more information, see javax.annotation.security.PermitAll.
Specifies that no security roles are allowed to invoke the method. For more information, see javax.annotation.security.DenyAll.
Specifies the security role which the method is run as. For more information, see javax.annotation.security.RunAs.
The following summarize the annotations used for context dependency.
Table 5-9 Context Dependency Annotations
Specifies a dependency to an EJB business interface or home interface. For more information, see javax.ejb.EJB.
Specifies one or more
Specifies a dependency on an external resource in the bean's environment. For more information, see javax.annotation.Resource.
Specifies one or more
The following summarize the annotations used for timeout and exceptions.
Table 5-10 Timeout and Exception Annotations
Specifies the timeout method of the bean class. For more information, see javax.ejb.Timeout.
Specifies that an exception is an application exception and should be reported to the client directly. For more information, see javax.ejb.ApplicationException.
The following summarize the annotations used for timers scheduling-specific annotations.
Table 5-11 Timer and Scheduling Annotations
Specifies the timeout method of the bean class. For more information, see javax.ejb.Timeout.
Specifies that an exception is an application exception and should be reported to the client directly. For more information, see javax.ejb.ApplicationException.


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On Monday, the Crew fell 2-0 to Colorado in Phoenix to drop their mark to 1-2-1 with the final game in Arizona on Thursday vs. Houston. Sanna Nyassi and Steven Emory had goals for the Rapids in the second half.
Crew forward Jeff Cunningham started with Andres Mendoza for the first time and they created some trouble for the Rapids back line but could not find the back of the net. Mendoza, who missed the first two games because of the flu, had a goal called back because he was ruled offside.
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[inline_node:328752]Goalkeeper William Hesmer went the distance in only his second outing since getting clearance to play after suffering a separated right shoulder on Oct. 24. He went 30 minutes against Seattle last week.
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