Entity bean lifecycle: PostLoad
File: EmployeeService.java import java.util.List; import javax.ejb.Stateless; import javax.persistence.EntityManager; import javax.persistence.PersistenceContext; @Stateless public class EmployeeService implements EmployeeServiceLocal, EmployeeServiceRemote { @PersistenceContext(unitName="EmployeeService") EntityManager em; public EmployeeService() { } public void doAction(){ Employee employee = new Employee(); employee.setFirstName("E"); employee.setLastName("E"); em.persist(employee); em.flush(); System.out.println("saved"); List list = em.createQuery("FROM Employee p").getResultList(); } } File: EmployeeServiceLocal.java import java.util.Collection; import javax.ejb.Local; @Local public interface EmployeeServiceLocal { public void doAction(); } File: EmployeeServiceRemote.java import java.util.Collection; import javax.ejb.Remote; @Remote public interface EmployeeServiceRemote{ public void doAction(); } File: Employee.java import javax.persistence.Entity; import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue; import javax.persistence.Id; import javax.persistence.PostLoad; @Entity public class Employee implements java.io.Serializable { private int id; private String firstName; private String lastName; @Id @GeneratedValue public int getId() { return id; } @PostLoad public void postLoad() { System.out.println("@PostLoad"); } public void setId(int id) { this.id = id; } public String getFirstName() { return firstName; } public void setFirstName(String first) { this.firstName = first; } public String getLastName() { return lastName; } public void setLastName(String last) { this.lastName = last; } } File: jndi.properties java.naming.factory.initial=org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory java.naming.factory.url.pkgs=org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces java.naming.provider.url=localhost:1099 File: Main.java import java.util.Collection; import javax.naming.InitialContext; public class Main { public static void main(String[] a) throws Exception { EmployeeServiceRemote service = null; // Context compEnv = (Context) new InitialContext().lookup("java:comp/env"); // service = (HelloService)new InitialContext().lookup("java:comp/env/ejb/HelloService"); service = (EmployeeServiceRemote) new InitialContext().lookup("EmployeeService/remote"); service.doAction(); } } File: persistence.xml <persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence" version="1.0"> <persistence-unit name="EmployeeService" > <!-- transaction-type="JTA" --> <jta-data-source>java:/DefaultDS</jta-data-source> <properties> <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create-drop"/> </properties> <!-- <properties> <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect"/> <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="update"/> <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class" value="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver"/> <property name="hibernate.connection.username" value="sa"/> <property name="hibernate.connection.password" value=""/> <property name="hibernate.connection.url" value="jdbc:hsqldb:data/tutorial"/> </properties> --> </persistence-unit> </persistence> File: ejb-jar.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <ejb-jar> <enterprise-beans> </enterprise-beans> </ejb-jar>