I don't think of an interface as a "pattern specifically about the publicly
available views/facets of an object". You can define interfaces that are
visible only from the package, and in fact, this is a feature that I use
often in my designs. In my opinion, interfaces are a means for
specification: they state what you have to implement if you want to be
coherent with your designs. That is something that applies as well for what
you intend for the general public as for what you intend for your
application's internals.
In EJB, I see the home and remote interfaces for a specification as well:
they state what features you want the container/application server to
exhibit from a specification you give and partially implement. I the case of
ejb-references, you could want to make calls on remote objects that you
wouldn't want others to see.
But if I'd like to have something like this in j2ee, it's probably due to
the fact that I'm a beginner in using those tools ;-)
regards,
candide
> There is no way to define anything but public method in any interface.
This
> is not limited to remote interfaces or EJB. Interfaces are an OO pattern
specifically
> about the publicly available views/facets of an object. If you want to
hide
> some method of an EJB implementation then don't put the method in the
> public interface. EJB adds the ability to restrict who can access the
public
> methods as well, so if the method should be available to some you have
> this path as well.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "fractals" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 2:37 PM
> Subject: [JBoss-user] access modifiers lost in EJB programming ?
>
>
> > AFAIK, there's no way to make a method anything else than public in a
remote
> > interface. Sad, because I *would* like to hide some of the methods I
define
> > for some of my beans.
> >
> > Really, is there no way to get this cornerstone of OO programming back
into
> > the EJB realm ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > candide
> >
> >
>
>
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