javax.ejb.spi

Interface EJBContainerProvider

public interface EJBContainerProvider

The EJBContainerProvider SPI is used by the embeddable container bootstrap class to initialize a suitable embeddable container.

Since:

EJB 3.1

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
EJBContainer	createEJBContainer(Map<?,?> properties) Called by the embeddable container bootstrap process to find a suitable embeddable container implementation.

Method Detail

createEJBContainer

EJBContainer createEJBContainer(Map<?,?> properties)
                         throws EJBException

Called by the embeddable container bootstrap process to find a suitable embeddable container implementation. An embeddable container provider may deem itself as appropriate for the embeddable application if any of the following are true :

• The javax.ejb.embeddable.provider property was included in the Map passed to createEJBContainer and the value of the property is the provider's implementation class.
• No javax.ejb.embeddable.provider property was specified.

If a provider does not qualify as the provider for the embeddable application, it must return null.

Parameters:

properties - Spec-defined and/or vendor-specific properties, that were passed to javax.ejb.embeddable.EJBContainer#createEJBContainer(Map<?,?>) call

Returns:

EJBContainer instance or null

Throws:

EJBException