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member variable. The session bean looks up the entity bean during creation and

activation in the

ejbCreate()

and ejbActivate methods as follows:

package com.rickhightower.auth;

public class UserManagementBean implements SessionBean {

private

LocalUserHome userHome = null;

public void ejbCreate() throws CreateException {

try {

userHome = getUserHome();

} catch (NamingException e) {

throw new CreateWrapperException(

"Unable to find local user home in ejbCreate", e);

}

}

public void ejbActivate() {

try {

userHome = getUserHome();

} catch (NamingException e) {

throw new EJBException(

"Unable to find local user home in Activate", e);

}

}

}

Thus the home interface is always available to the business methods of the session

bean.

UserManagementBean

business methods in remote

interface

The business methods of the

UserManagementBean

are defined succinctly in the

remote interface of the

UserManagementBean

as follows:

package com.rickhightower.auth;

import javax.ejb.EJBObject;

import java.rmi.RemoteException;

public interface UserManagement extends EJBObject {

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