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* @ejb.ejb ref ejb name="DeptBean" view type="local"

* @ejb.ejb ref ejb name="EmployeeBean" view type="local"

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*/

public class HRSystemBean implements SessionBean {

Note that the two little lines of tag code generate the following ejb local ref tag listings.

...

HRSystem

...

ejb/DeptBean

Entity

ejb.DeptHome

ejb.Dept

DeptBean

ejb/EmployeeBean

Entity

ejb.EmployeeHome

ejb.Employee

EmployeeBean

...

Two lines of XDoclet tags corresponds to 15 lines of XML in the deployment descriptor,

and when or if you refactor the included classes the deployment descriptor stays in

sync. This is highly significant.

XDoclet and EJB technology: Using the XDoclet Ant

task ejbdoclet

Now that you define all of your beans, you need to modify your Ant build script to use

the XDoclet JavaDoc tags to generate the dependent files as follows:

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