Access Bean
An AccessBean is the implementation in VisualAge for Java of SeshKumar 's ClientViewOfEjb idiom. It basically is a wrapper for an Enterprise Java Bean that implements the methods in the Remote Interface of the EJB as methods of a JavaBean. The methods in the Home Interface become constructors to the class or static members (in the case of findByXXX methods).
It sort of works like this:
public class MyEJBWrapperBean {
private MyEJB ejb;
MyEJBWrapperBean(String arg) {
// do the initial context lookup
// obtain the home (MyEJBWrapperHome)
ejb = MyEJBWrapperHome.create(arg);
}
String doFoo(int arg) {
// pass-through method to the underlying ejb String result = null;
try {
result = ejb.doFoo(arg);
} catch (RemoteException e) {}
return result;
}
}
Hopefully you get the picture... You generate these things by selecting an EJB inside VA's EJB Development Environment tab and clicking on "Add-->AccessBean".