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In this example we see how one can support both business interfaces and component interfaces on the same bean. You may choose to do this for backwards compatibility with older clients or to maintain an older EJB 2.x API still being used. The advantage is that you can turn EJB 2.1 beans into EJB 3.0 beans without having to update any code consuming that EJB.

The source for this example is in the "component-interfaces" directory located in the openejb-examples.zip available on the download page.

The Code

Annotated Bean Class

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