Hi,

If I am caching the EJBHome and InitialContext in implementing the servicelocator pattern, do I need to close the context after every EJB transaction using Context.close() method in the finally block?

Any suggestion in this is highly appreciated.

Thanks
Suneer

Hi,

usually you should not need to close the InitialContext. I suppose the EJB container should do this for you. Anyway - I know of at least one EJB container (BEA Weblogic) which does not close the context after lookup. That causes problems with security (Principals switch depending on the Identity used for the lookup!).

So - close the InitialContext after the lookup. It seems good style to me.

Cheers,

René Zanner

Thanks very much for your suggestion.
I use BEA Weblogic 6.1. I want to cache the initial context and EJBHome.
Now, if I close the context every time in the finally block, will I still be able to use the cached context/ Home interface?

Thanks,
Suneer

Hi,

it should be enough to cache the Home interfaces. We do that in our ServiceLocator pattern: we have a EjbHomeFactory which caches the Home interfaces in a Map.

Why do you want to cache the InitialContext? I'm afraid that when you close it, you can't use it any longer for lookups.

Cheers,

René

Hi René,

Thanks very much for your suggestion.
I will implement your suggestions.

Thanks again...

Suneer