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 version.

Author:

Florent Benoit

See Also:

EJB 3.1 specification

Method Summary

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

Returns:

EJBContainer instance or null

Throws:

EJBException - if container is not created.