Re: EJB Restrictions-- threads, io

[Ian McCallion]

Alasdair Gilmour wrote:

> Forgive my ignorance - I'm relatively new to this - but if an Enterprise
> Bean is forbidden from doing IO or accessing external resources, how is it
> possible to implement Bean-Managed Persistence? In this case, the Entity
> Bean is responsible for storing and restoring its own state in some
> arbitrary store ( which could be just a file, not necessarily an RDBMS ) -
> that would be rather difficult without doing IO!

The restriction is on use of non-transactional flat file I/O. JDBC is allowed.


Ian McCallion
CICS Business Unit
IBM Hursley
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