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Re: Enhancement to _at_EJB annotation

From: Dibyendu Majumdar <dibyendu_at_mazumdar.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:58:55 +0000

Hello Gavin,

Would you elaborate on the reasons?

Thanks

Gavin King wrote:
> This was discussed a number of times, and we decided not to go there.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dibyendu Majumdar [mailto:dibyendu_at_mazumdar.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 2:45 PM
> To: ejb_at_glassfish.dev.java.net; ejb3-pfd-feedback_at_sun.com
> Subject: Enhancement to @EJB annotation
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to suggest an enhancement to @EJB annotation so that the
> client can specify whether the local or remote interface is desired.
> This way, we can avoid the "antipattern" described by Sahoo (apologies,
> Sahoo!) in the discussion at:
>
> http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=13366&tstart=0
>
> This method will a) allow EJBs to be coded as POJOs, and b) mimic the
> approach in earlier versions of EJB where the client had to explicitly
> decide on the type of interface.
>
> Thanks and Regards
>
> Dibyendu
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