My guess is that super.rant will always succeed. EJB containers (as far as I
know) don't have the proper hooks to catch super.rant, only calls that come
from the remote interface.
Jeff
Laird Nelson wrote:
> I just thought of another potential problem having to do with roles
> (actually, come to think of it, this problem might manifest
> itself while
> being spec 1.1 compliant!). Hopefully someone can tell me if there's
> something obviously wrong with the following scenario.
>
> Suppose, legally (this isn't component inheritance, this is just basic
> class inheritance, allowed by the 1.1 spec.), you have a bean
> class that
> inherits from another bean class:
>
> public class GeorgeWBushBean extends PoliticianBean....
>
> ...and you have a method that the subclass implements by doing this:
>
> // override
> public String rant() {
>
> // capture generic rant, unless this call fails!
> StringBuffer rant =
> new StringBuffer(super.rant());
>
> // now add to it
> rant.append("And another thing: McCain ate paste as a child!");
>
> // give it back
> return rant.toString();
>
> }
>
> Suppose that in the superclass'--PoliticianBean's--deployment
> descriptor, only people playing the CivicMinded role may invoke the
> rant() method. Now suppose that in the
> subclass'--GeorgeWBush's--deployment descriptor, only people
> playing the
> RichElite role may invoke the rant() method. Add the fact for this
> discussion that it just so happens that no one in the RichElite role
> will ever be in the CivicMinded role. Will the super.rant() call
> succeed if its caller is in the RichElite role but is NOT in the
> CivicMinded role?
>
> (I should try this out but (a) we don't have our appserver in
> house yet
> and (b) I can't get the &$!? Sun deploytool to work. Curious
> if this is
> obviously permissible or obviously wrong.)
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