differences between CDI beans and EJBs is that EJBs are :
Transactional
Remote or local
Able to passivate stateful beans freeing up resources
Able to make use of timers
Can be asynchronous
Stateless EJBs can be thought of as thread safe single-use beans that don’t maintain any state between two web requests
Stateful EJBs do hold state and can be created and sit around for as long as they are needed until they are disposed of
Stateless beans must have a dependent scope while a stateful session bean can have any scope. By default they are transactional, but you can use the transaction attribute annotation.
CDI beans can be injected into EJBs and EJBs can be injected into CDI beans
When to use which bean
How do you know when to use which bean? Simple.
In general, you should use CDI beans unless you need the advanced functionality available in the EJBs such as transactional functions. You can write your own interceptor to make CDI beans transactional, but for now, its simpler to use an EJB until CDI gets transactional CDI beans which is just around the corner
Comparing JSF Beans, CDI Beans and EJBs
JSF Managed Beans
In short, don’t use them if you are developing for Java EE 6 and using CDI. They provide a simple mechanism for dependency injection and defining backing beans for web pages, but they are far less powerful than CDI beans.
JSF beans cannot be mixed with other kinds of beans without some kind of manual coding.
CDI Beans
includes a complete, comprehensive managed bean facility
interceptors, conversation scope, Events, type safe injection, decorators, stereotypes and producer methods
JSF-like features, you can define the scope of the CDI bean using one of the scopes defined in the javax.enterprise.context package (namely, request, conversation, session and application scopes). If you want to use the CDI bean from a JSF page, you can give it a name using the javax.inject.Named annotation
inner class Builder is in charge of creating Customer instances
mandatory fields – either primitive (e.g. id) or annotated with @NotNull (e.g. lastName) – are part of the builder's constructor
all optional fields setter methods on the builder are provided
newly created Customer instance is validated using the Validator#validate() method
impossible to retrieve an invalid Customer instance
extract the validation routine into a base class:
abstract class AbstractBuilder<T>
T build() throws ConstraintViolationException
protected abstract T buildInternal();
private static Validator validator
Concrete builder classes have to
extend AbstractBuilder
must implement the buildInternal() method:
Builder extends AbstractBuilder<Customer>
@Override
protected Customer buildInternal()
Implementing the Builder Pattern using the Bean Validation API
variation of the Builder design pattern for instantiating objects with multiple optional attributes.
this pattern frees you from providing multiple constructors with the different optional attributes as parameters (hard to maintain and hard to read for clients)
or providing setter methods for the optional attributes
(require objects to be mutable, can leave objects in inconsistent state)
When a native SQL query returns objects, the SQL must ensure it returns the correct data to build the resultClass using the correct column names as specified in the mappings. If the SQL is more complex and returns different column names, or returns data for multiple objects then a @SqlResultSetMapping must be used.