Tom,
I know that atleast Weblogic is providing this feature for entity beans. But
you are right about finding out from the authors if it's required. I hope so
!
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> Subject: clarification requested: retention of references across
> passivation
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>
> Section 6.4.1 of the spec says:
>
> "An instance may hold EJB object references to other EJB objects (sessions
> or entities). When the container passivates the instance after
> ejbPassivate, it must store the EJB ob-ject references with the passivated
> instance, and reconstruct these object references when it loads the
> instances state before ejbActivate. "
>
> This is in the section dealing with session beans.
>
> Is this statement true only of session beans, or is it true of both
> session and entity beans? Entity beans do, after all, get passivated. Of
> course, the semantics of passivation for entity beans are different -- a
> passivated entity bean loses its identity, whereas a passivated session
> bean retains its identity. It seems a bit of a conceptual disjoint,
> though, to provide this handy feature for session beans but not for entity
> beans.
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