Design help please
Hi all,
I am trying to create a design for print services, and I'm trying to see if EJB is a good option. If you know of any similar tutorials/case studies, I'd appreciate a reference. I couldn't deduce anything for this case in Sun's tutorials...
I would like a user to be able to print to a certain printer, specified by its name, i.e. "printer 1st floor", "printer 2nd floor", etc. The names are listed in some directory.
I would like for an administrator to be able to administer each printer (get job list, stop, start, get status, etc).
Each printer is connected to a single host, but there may be more than one host.
My main question:
Is "Printer" a good candidate to be an EJB? The problem I'm having with that, is the fact that I don't know how a SINGLE application server could manage several DISTINCT EJBs that have the SAME class (Printer class), but are still not Stateful, in the sense that a single printer serves several users and must maintain a queue for their jobs.
If you think of any other obstacles in using EJB for this application, please feel free to comment....
thanks.
