Services configured with the CreateEJB 2.1 template create one or more instances of a single remote 2.1 EJB class and return the EJB handles to the caller. A CreateEJB 2.1 service does not invoke any methods on the EJBs it creates. You can create the following types of EJBs: entity beans, stateless session beans, and stateful session beans.

At design time, you provide the following inputs in the adapter service editor: the JNDI lookup name of the EJB to create and the identity of the EJBHome creator/finder method to be executed by the service. If the method has parameters, you can override the default names given to the parameters in Designer's adapter service editor. See Configuring CreateEJB 2.1 Services for more information about the parameters.

In a CreateEJB 2.1 service's input signature, the document name used to contain EJB method arguments is pre-configured and localized. The input document name is EJBHome_Args and is only visible if the home method takes arguments.

The output of a CreateEJB 2.1 adapter service is the remote EJB(s), and typically serves as the input to an InvokeEJB 2.1 adapter service. For more information, see InvokeEJB 2.1 Adapter Service.