public class Session
extends EnterpriseBean

The session-beanType declares an session bean. The declaration consists of:

- an optional description - an optional display name - an optional icon element that contains a small and a large icon file name - a name assigned to the enterprise bean in the deployment description - the names of the session bean's remote home and remote interfaces, if any - the names of the session bean's local home and local interfaces, if any - the name of the session bean's web service endpoint interface, if any - the session bean's implementation class - the session bean's state management type - the session bean's transaction management type - an optional declaration of the bean's environment entries - an optional declaration of the bean's EJB references - an optional declaration of the bean's local EJB references - an optional declaration of the bean's web service references - an optional declaration of the security role references - an optional declaration of the security identity to be used for the execution of the bean's methods - an optional declaration of the bean's resource manager connection factory references - an optional declaration of the bean's resource environment references. - an optional declaration of the bean's message destination references

The elements that are optional are "optional" in the sense that they are omitted when if lists represented by them are empty.

Either both the local-home and the local elements or both the home and the remote elements must be specified for the session bean.

The service-endpoint element may only be specified if the bean is a stateless session bean.

Java class for Session complex type.

The following schema fragment specifies the expected content contained within this class.

 <complexType name="Session">
   <complexContent>
     <extension base="{ejb.xmi}EnterpriseBean">
       <choice maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0">
         <element name="serviceEndpoint" type="{java.xmi}JavaClass"/>
       </choice>
       <attribute name="serviceEndpoint" type="{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}string" />
       <attribute name="sessionType" type="{ejb.xmi}SessionType" />
       <attribute name="transactionType" type="{ejb.xmi}TransactionType" />
     </extension>
   </complexContent>
 </complexType>