The AccountControllerBean Session Bean

The business methods of the AccountControllerBean session bean perform tasks that fall into the following categories: creating and removing entities, managing the account-customer relationship, and getting the account information.

The following methods create and remove entities:

• createAccount

• removeAccount

These methods of the AccountControllerBean session bean call the create and remove methods of the Account entity. The createAccount and removeAccount methods throw application exceptions to indicate invalid method arguments. The createAccount method throws an IllegalAccountTypeException if the type argument is neither Checking, Savings, Credit, nor Money Market. The createAccount method also looks up the specified customer exists by invoking the EntityManager.find method. If the result of this verification is null, the createAccount method throws a CustomerNotFoundException.

The following methods manage the account-customer relationship:

• addCustomerToAccount

• removeCustomerFromAccount

The Account and Customer entities have a many-to-many relationship. A bank account can be jointly held by more than one customer, and a customer can have multiple accounts.

In the Duke’s Bank application, the addCustomerToAccount and removeCustomerFromAccount methods of the AccountControllerBean session bean manage the account-customer relationship. The addCustomerToAccount method, for example, starts by verifying that the customer exists. To create the relationship, the addCustomerToAccount method first looks up the Customer and Account entities using the EntityManager.find method, then it calls the Account.addCustomer method to associate the customer with the account.

The following methods get the account information:

• getAccountsOfCustomer

• getDetails

The AccountControllerBean session bean has two get methods. The getAccountsOfCustomer method returns all of the accounts of a given customer by invoking the getAccounts method of the Account entity. Instead of implementing a get method for every instance variable, the AccountControllerBean has a getDetails method that returns an object (AccountDetails) that encapsulates the entire state of an Account entity. Because it can invoke a single method to retrieve the entire state, the client avoids the overhead associated with multiple remote calls.