No, EJB 1.0 didn't have what you are asking for. WebSphere 4 has a
proprietary add-on called "Workspaces" (as an enterprise extension) that is
exactly what you are looking for. I would also vote for adding a similar
construct to the spec!

/johan

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Sent: den 28 januari 2002 15:57
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Subject: Re: SFSB Question

I keep coming across this problem. Usually I solve it by passing parameters
to all methods in a SLSB.

However in EJB 1.0, I seem to remember that user information (in addition to
things like UserPrincipal) could be added to the EJBContext, you could use
getEnvironment() to get a properties object.

Does anybody know why there is not a context object, like a servletContext
or sessionContext, in EJB.

Perhaps I am missing something?.. but that would seem to be a nice addition.


>From reading the EJBContext JavaDoc, the deprecated method:
getEnvironment(), suggests using JNDI to get the environment variables. I
have never seen anybody caching data in this way. (One could use the
principal object as a key to make the data session specific)

 Any Ideas.



Toby












On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:12:21 -0800, Alex Paransky
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>RE: SFSB QuestionPassing a parameter in to stateless session bean will not
>help you, since the container is free to pool the beans as it wishes.  So
>when you are doing an Home.create() call the container is simply picking on
>of existing free session bean objects from it's pool.  If you did, somehow,
>managed to initialize the session with the id of the user, it would only
>confuse you later, since the same session would be used for a different
>user.
>
>The best method I can think of, is explicitly passing the parameters to
each
>call your client make on to the session bean.  You can package those
>parameters into a class called UserContext, for example, and make it easy
to
>create the context:
>
>class UserContext implements java.io.Serializable {
>   String userId, sessionId, httpRequestId;
>
>   public static UserContext getContext(HttpServletRequest request) {...}
>}
>
>There are other methods such as using entity beans without persistence, or
>using statefull session beans.  Both of these, however, will reduce the
load
>balancing and fail over aspects of your system.  Do you really want to
>sacrifice these features for log4j?  Perhaps.  Perhaps Not.  You need to
>decide.
>
>-AP_
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Biske, Todd
>  Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 6:35 AM
>  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  Subject: Re: SFSB Question
>
>
>  The initialization parameter that's needed is a logging context object
>that allows us to use the NDC in log4j across VM's.  An example would be
>where we want the session id or user id associated with an HTTP request to
>be prepended to all log messages generated in the processing of that
>request.  Within a VM, the NDC in log4j handles this.  As soon as you make
a
>remote call, however, you're executing in a different thread and the
>information in the NDC is lost.
>
>  -tb
>
>    -----Original Message-----
>    From:   Alex Paransky [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>    Sent:   Thursday, January 24, 2002 5:35 PM
>    To:     Biske, Todd; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>    Subject:        RE: SFSB Question
>
>    Stateless session beans imply that they cannot hold a state that is of
>any meaning to the client.  Thus it does not make sense for the client to
>try to pass in any kind of initialization parameter.  If you want to pass
>extra information into the session, that should be done via ejb-jar.xml
>descriptor in the session's environment.  If you describe why you need to
do
>this, perhaps a better solution could be found.
>
>
>    State full sessions beans are expensive, and cannot be cached or
re-used
>by the container.
>
>    -AP_
>
>      -----Original Message-----
>      From: A mailing list for Enterprise JavaBeans development
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Biske, Todd
>      Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 2:58 PM
>      To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>      Subject: SFSB Question
>
>
>
>      On the project I'm working on, we've got a situation where it would
>extremely valuable to be able to have parameterized ejbCreate() methods on
>our stateless session beans, but the spec doesn't allow for this (we could
>put them in, but they'd never get invoked).
>
>      One alternative would be to use stateful session beans, which allow
>this type of functionality.  The client would still be using the session
>bean in a stateless manner, however, e.g. one method call and it's done.
Is
>anyone aware of the potential overhead implications of making all of the
>session beans stateful versus stateless?  If it matters, the beans would be
>deployed under WL 6.1.
>
>      The other alternative that we're currently heading down is to take
the
>parameter we'd like to pass in to ejbCreate() and add it to all of the
>business methods defined in the remote/local interface.
>
>      Thoughts?
>      -tb
>
>
>
>
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