/** This simple application tests the 'Interest' Enterprise JavaBean which is
implemented in the package 'org.jboss.docs.interest'. For this to work, the
Bean must be deployed on an EJB server.
*/
class InterestClient
{
/** This method does all the work. It creates an instance of the Interest EJB on
the EJB server, and calls its `calculateCompoundInterest()' method, then prints
the result of the calculation.
*/
public static void main(String[] args)
{
// Enclosing the whole process in a single `try' block is not an ideal way
// to do exception handling, but I don't want to clutter the program up
// with catch blocks
try
{
// Get a naming context
InitialContext jndiContext = new InitialContext();
System.out.println("Got context");
// Get a reference to the Interest Bean
Object ref = jndiContext.lookup("interest/Interest");
System.out.println("Got reference");
// Get a reference from this to the Bean's Home interface
InterestHome home = (InterestHome)
PortableRemoteObject.narrow(ref, InterestHome.class);
// Create an Interest object from the Home interface
Interest interest = home.create();
// call the calculateCompoundInterest() method to do the calculation
System.out.println("Interest on 1000 units, at 10% per period, compounded over 2 periods is:");
System.out.println(interest.calculateCompoundInterest(1000, 0.10, 2));