SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENTERPRISE JAVABEANS CONTAINER

1 . A system to run Enterprise JavaBeans (“EJB”), comprising:

a life cycle manager to manage the lifecycle of bean instances;

a client views manager to manage the life cycle of client views provided to bean clients;

a proxy invocation handler coupled to a client view factory to propagate a client request from a client view to a bean instance;

an invocation chains manager to execute the client request responsive to receiving the client request from the proxy invocation handler; and

an invocation context to manage the lifecycle of an interceptor chain responsive to the interceptor chain being executed by the invocation chains manager.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the client views manager comprises:

a set of client view factory instances to create and destroy client view instances.

3 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising:

a timeout manager to manage timeout invocations.

4 . An apparatus to provide a runtime environment for an Enterprise JavaBean (“EJB”), the apparatus comprising:

an invocation chains manager to invoke an invocation chain responsive to a request;

an enterprise bean context to maintain a set of resources associated with the EJB;

an instance life cycle manager coupled to the enterprise bean context to manage an instance of the EJB and resources associated with the instance of the EJB; and

a component interface manager to manage factory objects associated with the instance of the EJB.

5 . The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the factory objects comprise:

a remote access factory object; and

a local access factory object.

6 . A method to run Enterprise Java Beans (“EJB”) applications, comprising:

creating a set of interceptors, each interceptor encapsulating logic to service a request for a bean or a bean life cycle event;

grouping interceptors in interceptor chains;

requesting an interceptor chain responsive to receiving a request for the bean;

associating the interceptor chain with an invocation context; and

executing the interceptor chain to service the request.

7 . The method of claim 6 , further comprising obtaining a reference to a client view of the bean.

8 . The method of claim 6 , wherein requesting the interceptor chain comprises:

invoking a proxy invocation handler to pass the request to an invocation chain manager;

estimating if the received request is for a business logic operation or a lifecycle operation; and

identifying an interceptor chain to service the request based on the estimation of the type of the request.

9 . A machine readable medium having instructions therein that when executed by the machine, cause the machine to:

create a set of interceptors, each interceptor encapsulating logic to service a request for a bean or a bean life cycle event;

group interceptors in interceptor chains;

request an interceptor chain responsive to receiving a request for the bean; and

execute the interceptor chain to service the request.

10 . The machine readable medium of claim 9 , further comprising instructions that cause the machine to obtain a reference to a client view of the bean.

11 . The machine readable medium of claim 9 , wherein instructions causing the machine to request an interceptor chain, cause the machine to:

invoke a proxy invocation handler to pass the request to an invocation chain manager;

estimate if the received request is for a business logic operation or a lifecycle operation; and

identify an interceptor chain to service the request based on the estimation of the type of the request.