Bean things you can do in home business methods

Use your EntityContext to:

get a reference to your home

get a reference to your EJB object

get your primary key

get security information about the client

force a transaction to rollback (CMT beans)

find out if the transaction has already been set to rollback (CMT beans)

get a transaction reference, and call methods on it (BMT beans only, so entities can’t use this)

Access:

your special JNDI environment

another bean’s methods

a resource manager (like a database) ...

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