EJB Session Stateful Question

Question

I have a system (bought from another company) that has an API that I can use to access its functionality and the API is session oriented, so to get an instance of the Session API object I need at least to give my autentication details and this is an performance expensive step. This session object is not serializable so I can't have failover on it.
What I have found out is that this Session API Object is just a wrapper to a EJB session stateful so I'm wondering how I can retrieve that instance in the case of a failure if I have lost the Session API Object refrence?
Thanks,
Johann

Answer 1

So I can serialize the handle or the remote object reference and pass it through the wire and then I'm going to be able to recover the same session object? I could do it with the Handle, what is the difference of using the remote object reference or the handle?
Thanks,
Johann
      Hashtable props = new Hashtable();
      props.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
          "weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory");
      props.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "t3://localhost:7001");
      Context ctx = new InitialContext(props);
      Object o = ctx.lookup("MySession");
      MySessionHome h = (MySessionHome) o;
      MySession r = h.create();
      r.setMsg("Some Message");
      log(r.getMsg());
      Handle handle = r.getHandle();
      FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("handle.dat");
      ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(fos);
      out.writeObject(handle);
      out.close();
      fos.close();
      ctx.close();
      FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("handle.dat");
      ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(fis);
      handle = (Handle) in.readObject();
      in.close();
      fis.close();
      r = (MySession) handle.getEJBObject();
      log(r.getMsg());