Experts,
The Deployer role is defined in section 2.2.3 as
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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.
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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:
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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.”]
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Please let me know if and how do I change the spec.
thanks,
-marina