To run the EasyBeans container, a JDK 5.0 or higher is required. A JDK 1.4.x will not work.
The EasyBeans container is provided as a .war file named ow_easybeans.war which allows to add or remove it in a few steps.
The .war file needs to be copied into $CATALINA_BASE/webapps directory.
Note : CATALINA_BASE could be replaced by CATALINA_HOME if CATALINA_BASE is not defined.
This war file is specific to Tomcat. It will detect the Tomcat application server and register some libraries in Tomcat application server.
Also, the java: naming of EasyBeans will be redirected to Tomcat naming mechanism automatically.
By removing the war file of EasyBeans + easybeans-deploy/ folder (and examples), all is removed (No libraries or configuration files are copied).
The examples provided in this EasyBeans release need to be copied in the $CATALINA_BASE/examples_ejb3s/ directory. The resulting directory will be $CATALINA_BASE/examples_ejb3s with subfolders like statelessbean.
As usual, Tomcat is launched with the catalina start or catalina run command. Note that a JDK 5.0 is required
ow_easybeans.war file located in $CATALINA_BASE/webapps directory will be autoloaded at the tomcat startup.
This release is bundled with some examples. The first one is a stateless bean
Here are the steps for launching this example :
Check that CATALINA_HOME (and maybe CATALINA_BASE) environment variables are defined before launching ant scripts
ant needs to be launched in $CATALINA_BASE/examples_ejb3s/statelessbean directory. This will compile the source code and copy the archive into the $CATALINA_BASE/easybeans-deploy/stateless.jar/ directory.
$CATALINA_BASE/easybeans-deploy directory. The bean was loaded automatically.
Deploying EJB3DeployableImpl[archive=easybeans-deploy/stateless.jar]
ant run.client
run.client:
[java] Calling helloWorld method...
[java] Add 1 + 2...
[java] Sum = '3'.
$CATALINA_BASE/webapps directory.This example shows the use of JDK 5.0 annotations, the EJB3 interceptors and the EJB3 callbacks.
The SessionBean class is annotated with @Stateless. This means that this class will be used as a stateless session bean.
The method trace is annotated with @AroundInvoke EJB3 annotation. This method will be called at each call on a business method. The business methods are defined in the interface implemented by the SessionBean class.
As a new feature of the EJB3, the interface doesn't need to extend the Remote interface. On the client side, there is no need to do a PortableRemoteObject.narrow() call.
Some annotations are commented in the session bean example. To discover some new features like interceptors in other classes or the EJB3 callbacks, the comments can be removed and the example compiled again.
New methods can be added in the interface and implemented in the bean class, then the only step to do is to call ant in $CATALINA_BASE/examples_ejb3s/statelessbean directory. The EJB3 container will detect the changes and reload the bean.
As for the stateless session bean, the example needs to be compiled and deployed by calling ant in the $CATALINA_BASE/examples_ejb3s/statefulbean directory.
Once the bean is detected by the container and loaded, the client can be launched with ant run.client command.
The output will be :
run.client:
[java] org.objectweb.jotm.Current <init>
[java] INFO: JOTM 2.0.11
[java] Start a first transaction
[java] First request on the new bean
[java] Second request on the bean
[java] Commit the transaction
[java] Start a second transaction
[java] Buy 50 amount.
[java] Rollback the transaction
[java] after rollback, value = 30
[java] Request outside any transaction
[java] Check that value = 30
[java] ClientStateful OK. Exiting.
The @Stateful annotation is used to mark the bean as a stateful session bean.
State of the stateful session bean is notified by the transactions (default = REQUIRED), as the bean implements the SessionSynchronization interface.
The example needs to be compiled and deployed by calling ant in the $CATALINA_BASE/examples_ejb3s/entitybean directory.
Once the bean is detected by the container and loaded, the client can be launched with ant run.client command.
Note that Hibernate traces will be displayed as it will manage the Employee entity class.
This example shows the use of an entity bean and using EJB3 persistence provider which is in this release Hibernate. TopLink Essentials, OpenJPA can also be used with this EasyBeans. ObjectWeb Speedo will also provide a JPA interface.
The Entity class is a POJO class annotated with @Entity. The entities class are managed by the persistence provider, and in this case, by Hibernate.
As usual, ant command needs to be launched in the $CATALINA_BASE/examples_ejb3s/messagedrivenbean directory.
Once the bean is detected by the container and loaded, the client can be launched with ant run.client command.
The output on the server side will be :
Receiving a message named '((org.objectweb.joram.client.jms.TextMessage...'. with the content 'Message0
Receiving a message named '((org.objectweb.joram.client.jms.TextMessage...'. with the content 'Message1
Receiving a message named '((org.objectweb.joram.client.jms.TextMessage...'. with the content 'Message2
Receiving a message named '((org.objectweb.joram.client.jms.TextMessage...'. with the content 'Message3
Receiving a message named '((org.objectweb.joram.client.jms.TextMessage...'. with the content 'Message4
The @MessageDriven annotation is used to mark the bean as a message driven bean.
The client send 5 messages on the SampleQueue queue object that are received by the bean and displayed on the output.
The ant command needs to be launched in the $CATALINA_BASE/examples_ejb3s/timerservice directory.
When the bean is loaded by the container, the client can be launched with the ant run.client command.
The output on the server side will be:
[java] SLSB -> Timer method called by the Timer Service.
[java] SLSB -> Timer received = 'org.ow2.easybeans.component.quartz.EasyBeansTimer@6e7d3050'.
[java] SLSB -> Info object inside the timer object is 'Simple Serializable object'.
[java] SLSB -> Sending a message to a MDB which will start a timer.
[java] SLSB -> Message sent
[java] SLSB -> Call a local bean in order to start a new timer.
[java] MDB -> Timer method called by the Timer Service.
[java] MDB -> Timer received = 'org.ow2.easybeans.component.quartz.EasyBeansTimer@59d794d'.
[java] MDB -> Info object inside the timer object is 'Timer started by the onMessage() method'.
[java] TimedBean -> Got a timer with value 'org.ow2.easybeans.component.quartz.EasyBeansTimer@2dd5b883'.
This example shows the use of the @Timeout annotation on a
method. The client invokes the TimerBean that will launch a timer.
This timer will send a message to an MDB and then calls another bean
which implements javax.ejb.TimedObject
interface.
The ant command needs to be launched in the $CATALINA_BASE/examples_ejb3s/security directory.
The bean will be loaded and then the client can be launched with the ant run.client command.
The output on the server side will be :
someRolesAllowed() called
-> Caller is 'Principal[EasyBeans/Anonymous]'.
for run-as bean, caller is Caller is 'Principal[EasyBeans/Anonymous]
onlyAdminAllowed() called
-> Caller is 'Principal[admin]'.
someRolesAllowed() called
-> Caller is 'Principal[admin]'.
All the annotations related to the security are used in this example. The annotations are @DeclareRoles, @RolesAllowed, @DenyAll and @RunAs.
To get the admin role, the @RunAs annotation is used.
As shown by the output on the server, role admin is authorized to do some actions.
The ant command needs to be launched in the $CATALINA_BASE/examples_ejb3s/pool directory.
When the bean is loaded by the container, the client can be launched with the ant run.client command.
The output on the client side will be:
[java] Calling bean's methods...
[java] Waiting some time before checking the number of instances...
[java] Number of instances Annotation Bean = 5
[java] --> This value is OK, pool is limited to 5
[java] Number of instances XML Bean = 2
[java] --> This value is OK, pool is limited to 2
[java] Sending messages with multiple threads...
[java] Waiting some time to ensure that all messages have been sent...
[java] Look at the server side console to check pool values of MDB ...
The pool example is using XML or annotations to configure the pool of Stateless or MDB. The annotation used is @Pool
The configuration of the pool when using XML deployment descriptor is done in the META-INF/easybeans.xml file of the EJB-Jar file.
The ant command needs to be launched in the $CATALINA_BASE/examples_ejb3s/migrationejb21 directory.
When the bean is loaded by the container, the client can be launched with the ant run.client command.
The output on the server side will be:
[java] Calling hello() method on EJB 3.0 view of the Bean...
[java] Calling hello() method on Remote EJB 2.1 view of the Bean...
This example is using two interfaces for accessing the stateless session bean.
The stateless bean class EJB2And3Bean is annotated with @Remote(EJB3RemoteBusinessInterface.class) for the EJB 3.0 view. For the EJB 2.1 view, the class is
annotated with @RemoteHome(EJB2RemoteHome.class). For a LocalHome, it can be annotated with @LocalHome(EJB2LocalHome.class).
This example will deploy the EJB3 included in the EAR file in EasyBeans EJB3 container while the .war file will be deployed in Tomcat Application server.
The ant command needs to be launched in the $CATALINA_BASE/examples_ejb3s/ear directory.
When the EAR is detected by EasyBeans, the following traces will be displayed :
AbsWebContainerDeployer.deployEAR : Deploying EARDeployableImpl[archive=/tmp/EasyBeans-Deployer-benoitf/EAR/ear3.ear]
ENCManager.getInterceptorClass : Detecting Tomcat: using Tomcat ENC for the naming.
JPersistenceUnitInfoHelper.loadDefaultValues : Default persistence provider set to value org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence.
...
Version.<clinit> : Hibernate Annotations 3.3.0.GA
Environment.<clinit> : Hibernate 3.2.4
...
TomcatDeployer.deployWARs : The war 'WARDeployableImpl[archive=/tmp/apache-tomcat-6.0.13/temp/EasyBeans-Deployer-benoitf/EAR/ear3.ear/web.war]' has been deployed on the 'web' context.
Then, this example is available at the http://localhost:9000/ear-web/ URL.
This EAR example includes an EJB3 and a WAR file. This allows to use local interface between the WEB layer and the EJB layer.
The EAR file has no entry named META-INF/application.xml, EasyBeans will detect the type of the given archives and use default values for the name of the web context.
Due to the use of local interface, the Entities don't need to implement the Serializable interface.
The interface is not annotated with @Local annotation as it is the default value.
Each entity class provides a @NamedQuery query that allows to get all the objects
There is a relationship between Author and Book entities. It is very simple: One Author can write several books, but a Book is written only by one Author.
@OneToMany and @ManyToOne annotations are used to define the relationship
On the client side, only the EJB3 libraries + bean's remote interface + client code is needed, no needs of the JOnAS***Stub.class, etc.
The generated code is done by using ASM which is faster than velocity + javac methods.
It detects automatically the changes in the class made by the user and reload the bean. This can be tried on the examples provided in this release : Change the source code of a class, recompile and EasyBeans will reload the bean.
Some part of the deployment descriptors are not handled. env-entry, interceptors, ejb ref, remove, etc. are handled for example
The extended persistence context is not implemented. The Transaction-Scoped Persistence Context (default) has to be used.
No passivation on stateful
Bugs or comments can be reported on JIRA Issue web site or to the EasyBeans mailing-list available at EasyBeans Mailing-List