[OPENEJB-1296] Allow @DependsOn usage by all session bean types

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-beta-1
• Component/s: deployment
• Assignee: David Blevins
• Reporter: David Blevins
• Created: 10/Jun/10 01:31
• Updated: 10/Jun/10 01:31

Description

In EJB 3.1 the @DependsOn annotation was added to deal with ordering of beans annotated with the @Startup which causes the bean to be instantiated eagerly at application start rather than lazily on first request. Only @Singleton beans are allowed to use the @Startup annotation, however the new @Stateless minimum pool size functionality also causes instances to be created at startup presenting the same ordering issue that an @Singleton+@Startup might have.

To eliminate any ordering issues brought on by any eagerly started beans, the @DependsOn annotation can now be used on any session bean type.