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The combination of
@AroundInvoke
and
@Interceptors
makes providing powerful
crosscutting concerns to your application using EJB 3 interceptors simple and easy. This
was just a quick taste of how EJB 3 interceptors are implemented to get you going. In
sec-
tion 5.3.6
we'll provide a more comprehensive example and explanation of EJB 3 inter-
ceptor features. But first we'll talk more about the different options available in EJB 3 for
specifying interceptors.
5.3.5. Specifying interceptors
Now that you know the annotations involved for interceptors, you'll learn how to use them.
Like a lot of annotations,
@Interceptors
can be used at both a method and a class
level. So you'll see examples of this. Annotations are not all-powerful, however. In some
cases annotations cannot do the job. This is true for
@Interceptors
, and you'll see an
example of this where you'll need to abandon annotations and use the ejb-jar.xml file again.
Method- and class-level interceptors
The
@Interceptors
annotation allows you to specify one or more interceptor classes
for a method or class. In
listing 5.5
a single interceptor is attached to the
findOrder-
ById()
method. In this example, the
sayHello()
method of
SayHelloInter-
ceptor
will be called before
findOrderById()
is called:
@Interceptors(SayHelloInterceptor.class)
public Order findOrderById(String id) { ... }
attach an interceptor to a class, the interceptor is triggered if any of the target class's meth-
ods are invoked. In this example the
sayHello()
method of
SayHelloIntercept-
or
will be called before any of the methods in
OrderBean
are called:
@Stateless
@Interceptors(SayHelloInterceptor.class)
public class OrderBean { ... }
The
@Interceptors
annotation is fully capable of attaching more than one interceptor
at either a class or a method level. All you have to do is provide a comma-separated list
as a parameter to the annotation. For example, add two interceptors to
OrderBean
at the
class level:
