METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING CONTAINER MANAGED USES, OWNERSHIPS, AND REFERENCES IN AN ENTERPRISE JAVABEAN ENVIRONMENT

A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for implementing container managed uses, ownerships, and references in an enterprise JavaBean™ environment. A user may specify a uses, ownership, reference relationships between entity beans and sessions in a deployment descriptor file. When the file is processed, the present embodiment generates methods on the entity beans and allows the container to recognize the relationships, such that the user may access the session beans based on the specified relationships.