Looks like I didn't reset the change bars on the optional doc...
But answering your question, this text came from extracting anything
BMP/CMP (a.k.a. "entity beans") related from "4.2.1 Instance Passivation
and Conversational State" of EJB 3.1 (maintenance update by Linda).
It says, "If an entity bean is referenced from a stateful session bean
[...] In addition to the rules described in EJB Core Contracts and
Requirements document[18] Subsection 4.2.1 [...] " entity beans refs can
be stored in non-transient fields. It doesn't say how those refs are
passivated.
Do you have a suggestion for a better text?
Experts, does anybody else feel strong about rewording this section?
thanks,
-marina
Carlo de Wolf wrote:
> I don't get EJB 3.2 Optional EDR 3.8.3.
>
> Apart from the fact that it does not matter how an entity is referenced,
> passivation of entities is a different beast from session bean
> passivation.
>
> Session bean passivation is a life-cycle change to outside storage,
> entity bean passivation is a life-cycle change to 'stateless' pooled
> object. It makes no sense to serialize it to storage. If the pool is
> not large enough the container can just discard as the real state is
> in the backing persistence store.
>
> Carlo
>
> On 12/17/2011 01:22 AM, Marina Vatkina wrote:
>> Experts,
>>
>> I uploaded EDR versions of both books of the EJB 3.2 spec. Please
>> review the changes before the books go to the JCP site for an
>> official submission. If you don't have any comments, please let me
>> know if you are ok with the EDR in its current state.
>>
>> The books have the change bars (the Optional Chapters changes are
>> very minor) and all the changes are listed in the Revision History
>> sections.
>>
>> Other than all the cleanups and clarifications (thank you very much
>> to everybody who helped with this activity), the following had been
>> added to/changed in the spec (the corresponding parts of the revision
>> history are prepended with *New:*) :
>>
>> * Added asynchronous session bean invocations and non-persistent EJB
>> Timer Service support to EJB 3.2 Lite.
>> * Removed restriction to obtain the current class loader; changed
>> ‘must not’ to ‘should exercises caution’ when using the Java I/O
>> package.
>> * Added support for the lifecycle callback interceptor methods of
>> stateful session beans to execute in a transaction context determined
>> by the bean’s transaction management type and any applicable
>> transaction attribute.
>>
>> Have a nice reading!
>>
>> -marina
>>
>>
>>
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