Passivation of Connection Object in Stateful Session Bean

Question

Hi all,
I am developing a Stateful session bean that has a Connection object as its instance variable. And this bean starts transaction that spans across multiple method calls and finally either commit or rollback.
BeanClass
UserTransaction utx;
Connection conn;
ejbCreate()
allocateconnection();
ejbRemove()
closeconnection();
ejbActivate()
allocateconnection();
ejbpassivate()
closeconnection();
StartTransaction()
utx = getusertransaction();
utx.begin();
Method1()
do something with database
Method2()
do something with database
CommitTransaction()
utx.commit();
For example, the typical usage of this bean would be:
bean.StartTransaction();
bean.Method1();
bean.Method2();
bean.CommitTransaction();
Here are my two questions:
1. General Question: In order for a Connection object to join a Transaction, Do I have to create the connection after the transaction has started?
2. If the answer to the above question is yes, then: I understand that when this bean get passivated, the UserTransaction instance object would be passivated. And since the connection object can't not be passivated, I have to recreate the connection object in ejbactivate() method, would newly created connection participate in the same Transaction that was being passivated and now activated?

Answer 1

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Hi all,
I am developing a Stateful session bean that has a
Connection object as its instance variable. And this
bean starts transaction that spans across multiple
method calls and finally either commit or rollback.
BeanClass
UserTransaction utx;
Connection conn;
ejbCreate()
allocateconnection();
ejbRemove()
closeconnection();
ejbActivate()
allocateconnection();
ejbpassivate()
closeconnection();
StartTransaction()
utx = getusertransaction();
utx.begin();
Method1()
do something with database
Method2()
do something with database
CommitTransaction()
utx.commit();
For example, the typical usage of this bean would be:
bean.StartTransaction();
bean.Method1();
bean.Method2();
bean.CommitTransaction();
Here are my two questions:
1. General Question: In order for a Connection object
to join a Transaction, Do I have to create the
connection after the transaction has started?Strictly NO. In fact, the connection is obtained first and then can a transaction begin.
2. If the answer to the above question is yes, then: I
understand that when this bean get passivated, the
UserTransaction instance object would be passivated.
And since the connection object can't not be
passivated, I have to recreate the connection object
in ejbactivate() method, would newly created
connection participate in the same Transaction that
was being passivated and now activated?
The answer to first question being NO, your argument for question 2 does not hold true. According to the EJB specification, a stateful session bean can only be passivated between the transaction and not within a transaction. Your implementation for the stateful EJB is good to work.