[jsr345-experts] Re: XXX under section 11.5.3 (Deployer Roles)
Anybody?
thanks,
-marina
Marina Vatkina wrote:
> Experts,
>
> The Deployer role is defined in section 2.2.3 as
>
> ============
> The Deployer takes one or more ejb-jar files and/or .war file produced
> by a Bean Provider or Application Assembler and deploys the enterprise
> beans contained in the ejb-jar or .war files in a specific operational
> environment. The operational environment includes an EJB container and
> server.
>
> The Deployer must resolve all the external dependencies declared by
> the Bean Provider (e.g. the Deployer must ensure that all resource
> manager connection factories used by the enterprise beans are present
> in the operational environment, and he or she must bind them to the
> resource manager connection factory references declared in the
> metadata annotations or deployment descriptor), and must follow the
> application assembly instructions defined by the Application
> Assembler. To perform his or her role, the Deployer uses tools
> provided by the EJB Container Provider.
> ============
>
> If you search for "Deployer" throughout the spec, you'll find that
> it's role is in other places is defined as to resolve ejb refs, like
> in the one marked with XXX:
>
> ============
> 11.5.3 Deployer’s Responsibility
>
> The Deployer is responsible for the following:
>
> The Deployer must ensure that all the declared EJB references are
> bound to the business interfaces, no-interface views, or home
> interfaces of enterprise beans that exist in the operational
> environment. For session beans, the Deployer may use the information
> provided by the Bean Provider in the mappedName element of the EJB
> annotation or the mapped-name element of the ejb-ref or ejb-local-ref
> deployement descriptor element in creating this binding. Section 4.4
> describes the syntax for session bean portable global JNDI names. The
> Deployer may also use, for example, the JNDI LinkRef mechanism to
> create a symbolic link to the actual JNDI name of the target
> enterprise bean. [XXX The second sentence of this paragraph seemed to
> imply that the Deployer can set the value of DD entries, which is
> broken.This requires further review and discussion. The second and
> third sentences, in the original EJB 3.1 final release read as
> follows: “For session beans, the Deployer may use the EJB annotation
> mappedName attribute or the ejb-ref/ejb-local-ref mapped-name element
> to specify this binding. Section 4.4 describes the syntax for session
> bean portable global JNDI names.”]
> ============
>
> Please let me know if and how do I change the spec.
>
> thanks,
> -marina
>
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