[jboss-as7-dev] EJB Remote client design: async method designation

[David M. Lloyd]

On 09/16/2011 12:30 PM, Carlo de Wolf wrote:
> On 09/16/2011 05:09 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>> The client cannot know whether it was designated as such, since the
>> designation may be on the DD (also 4.5.1) which may not be visible to
>> the client. So whatever means we have to determine this fact we should
>> utilize. If there is a case where a non-async method legitimately could
>> return Future, then we can skip this trick. Also, see below...
>
> The way the spec is now a method must be designated as asynchronous
> either by @Asynchronous or via the DD.
> It does not allow the return type to be used for designation. So there
> is your legitimate case.

Well, the spec also doesn't allow the client to decide for itself, but 
we're clearly taking at least that liberty already.


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