org.jboss.ejb
Interface InstancePool

All Superinterfaces:

ContainerPlugin, org.jboss.system.Service

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractInstancePool, SingletonStatelessSessionInstancePool

public interface InstancePool

extends ContainerPlugin

Defines the model for a EnterpriseContext instance pool.

Version:

$Revision: 1.12.4.3 $

Author:

Rickard Öberg

Method Summary

void	discard(EnterpriseContext ctx) Discard an anonymous instance after invocation.
void	free(EnterpriseContext ctx) Return an anonymous instance after invocation.
EnterpriseContext	get() Get an instance without identity.
int	getCurrentSize() Return the size of the pool.
int	getMaxSize() Get the maximum size of the pool.

Methods inherited from interface org.jboss.ejb.ContainerPlugin

setContainer

Methods inherited from interface org.jboss.system.Service

create, destroy, start, stop

Method Detail

get

public EnterpriseContext get()
                      throws Exception

Get an instance without identity.

Can be used by finders and create-methods, or stateless beans

Returns:

Context/w instance

Throws:

Exception - RemoteException

free

public void free(EnterpriseContext ctx)

Return an anonymous instance after invocation.

Parameters:

ctx - The context to free.

discard

public void discard(EnterpriseContext ctx)

Discard an anonymous instance after invocation. This is called if the instance should not be reused, perhaps due to some exception being thrown from it.

Parameters:

ctx - The context to discard.

getCurrentSize

public int getCurrentSize()

Return the size of the pool.

Returns:

the size of the pool.

getMaxSize

public int getMaxSize()

Get the maximum size of the pool.

Returns:

the size of the pool.