All Implemented Interfaces:
    ContainerPlugin, GenericEntityObjectFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:
    JBossMessageEndpointFactory, ProxyFactory, ProxyFactoryHA, IORFactory, JBossJMSMessageEndpointFactory, JMSContainerInvoker

It is responsible for providing any EJBObject and EJBHome implementations (which may be statically or dynamically created).

Before forwarding a call to the container it must call Thread.setContextClassLoader() with the classloader of the container. It must also handle any propagated transaction and security contexts properly. It may acquire the TransactionManager from JNDI.

Also see:

Container
author: < - a href="mailto:rickard.oberg@telkel.com">Rickard Oberg

author: < - a href="mailto:marc.fleury@telkel.com">Marc Fleury

version: $ - Revision: 66439 $
20011219 marc fleury:
• Moved from typed return to Object to allow for optimizations in creation
• Per Dain Sundstrom requests removed the Remote Exception.
• The Container Invoker is going to be replaced by the ProxyFactory *

 public Object getEJBHome()
This method is called whenever the EJBHome implementation for this
container is needed.

 public EJBMetaData getEJBMetaData()
This method is called whenever the metadata for this container is
needed.

 public Collection getEntityCollection(Collection en)
This method is called whenever a collection of EJBObjects for a
collection of primary keys is needed.

 public Object getEntityEJBObject(Object id)
This method is called whenever an EJBObject implementation for an
entitybean is needed.

 public Object getStatefulSessionEJBObject(Object id)
This method is called whenever an EJBObject implementation for a stateful
session bean is needed.

 public Object getStatelessSessionEJBObject()
This method is called whenever an EJBObject implementation for a
stateless session bean is needed.

 public boolean isIdentical(Container container,
    Invocation mi)
Protocol specific isIdentical implementation

 public  void setInvokerBinding(String binding)
Set the invoker jndi binding

 public  void setInvokerMetaData(InvokerProxyBindingMetaData imd)
Set the invoker meta data so that the ProxyFactory can initialize properly