Entity Bean Question

[rajesh.shiggaon]

Guys:

While I was going through the EJB specification I found this statement,
which made me some what confused
"While a crash of the Java Virtual Machine may result in a rollback of
current transactions, it does not destroy previously created entity
objects nor invalidate the references to the home and component
interfaces held by clients"

If the client has a reference to the EJBObject, the JVM of the
application server crashes and comes up after some time. Once it has
come up, the client calls a business method through the EJBObject. How
the container takes care of this. How is this possible?

 

[David Linsin]

Well as for JBoss AS, and I guess most containers handle it this way,
it uses serialization to persist the current state of your application.