EJB Transformations

The EJB Session Bean and EJB Entity Bean transformations reduce the work required to generate the internals of Enterprise Java Beans. You can therefore focus on modeling at a higher level of abstraction.

Transformations

Both transformations also generate a META-INF Package containing a deployment descriptor element.

Transformation	Detail	See also
EJB Session Bean	This transformation converts a single Class element (containing the attributes, operations and references required for code generation by the javax.ejb.* Package) to An implementation Class element A home interface element A remote interface element
EJB Entity Bean	This transformation converts a single Class element (containing the attributes, operations and references required for code generation by the javax.ejb.* Package) to: An implementation Class element A home interface element A remote interface element A Primary Key element

Transformation

Detail

See also

EJB Session Bean

This transformation converts a single Class element (containing the attributes, operations and references required for code generation by the javax.ejb.* Package) to

An implementation Class element
A home interface element
A remote interface element

EJB Entity Bean

This transformation converts a single Class element (containing the attributes, operations and references required for code generation by the javax.ejb.* Package) to:

An implementation Class element
A home interface element
A remote interface element
A Primary Key element

Example

The PIM elements

After transformation generate a set of Entity Beans, where each one takes this form (for the Account Class):

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