EJB
IntelliJ IDEA features rich support for EJB development. Supporting EJB specifications from 1.x to 3.0 and
leveraging it through all its features, from coding assistance to refactoring,
IntelliJ IDEA stands for
the weapon of choice for developing EJB applications.
IntelliJ IDEA leverages all EJB in the dedicated module type — the EJB Module, which lets you handle EJB and relevant objects (ejb-jar.xml and other descriptors, EJB security and EJB deployment settings, etc.) under one functional entity. This simplifies EJB applications development, debugging and deployment.
EJB 3.0 specific features
IntelliJ IDEA fully supports annotation mechanism for creating EJB, and Interceptors, with automatic code generation, completion and dedicated binding editor.
EJB persistence support is powered with generating of persistence mapping from entity beans, Hibernate or JDBC source and the visual Persistence diagram builder that lets you get the complete picture of how your persistence entities relate one to another.
Additionally, IntelliJ IDEA supports entity listeners and Embeddable Enterprise Beans.
For your existing EJB projects (versions 1.x and 2.x), IntelliJ IDEA provides the migration to EJB 3.0 that includes:
- Converting EJB environment access
- Rebuilding EJB deployment descriptors
- Transforming EJB interfaces
- Turning Entity Beans into Container Managed Persistence
General EJB features
IntelliJ IDEA eliminates routine work through generating stub code for entity EJB, session EJB, message EJB and other EJB types, CMP EJB fields and EJB relationships. Dedicated context editors also help modify EJB and their properties.
IntelliJ IDEA automatically builds standard EJB deployment packages either in JAR or exploded directory format and automatically generates appropriate EJB XML descriptors for all EJB included in the module (ejb-jar.xml).
EJB-aware coding assistance
IntelliJ IDEA leverages code completion for both EJB code and descriptor files and also supports
EJB error highlighting: IntelliJ IDEA continuously checks your EJB source code for EJB specification compliance, so that all possible inconsistencies are immediately detected and highlighted in the editor.
EJB intention actions and quick fixes: For most EJB errors detected in your code, IntelliJ IDEA will provide you with the ability to automatically correct the erroneous code by showing an intention action light bulb in the editor that expands into a list of possible corrections.
Powerful EJB-aware refactorings
All global refactorings, like Rename, Change Method Signature, etc., are aware of the EJB specification and will therefore correct all necessary references in your code so that your EJB structure is not broken. Refactorings also apply to all XML descriptors to ensure the total integrity.