You define the references (resource references) of the Enterprise Beans that form a J2EE application. The types of Enterprise Beans are as follows:

• Session Bean
• Entity Bean
• Message-driven Bean

Each Enterprise Bean has the following three types of references:

• Enterprise Bean reference
  The Enterprise Bean reference is a reference for invoking other Enterprise Beans.
  
• Resource reference
  The resource reference is a reference to the resources. The resource references include the mail references, resource adapter references, and the resource environment references.
  
• Security role reference
  The security role reference is a role name reference that is used for executing access control for invoking the Enterprise Bean methods.
  

The following sections describe the Enterprise Bean references and the resource references. For the security role references, see 9.3 Defining security role references in the uCosminexus Application Server Security Management Guide.

For property settings, reference the following subsections:

• 3.4.1 Contents of the Session Bean property file in the uCosminexus Application Server Application and Resource Definition Reference Guide
• 3.5.1 Contents of the Entity Bean property file in the uCosminexus Application Server Application and Resource Definition Reference Guide
• 3.6.1 Contents of the MessageDrivenBean file in the uCosminexus Application Server Application and Resource Definition Reference Guide

Organization of this section

9.3.1 Defining other Enterprise Bean references

9.3.2 Defining mail configuration references

9.3.3 Defining resource adapter references

9.3.4 Defining resource environment references