The services configured with the FetchEJB 3.0 template find one or more instances of a single remote 3.0 EJB class and return the EJB handles to the caller. A FetchEJB 3.0 service does not invoke any methods on the EJBs it finds. You can create the following types of EJBs: stateless session beans and stateful session beans.

At design time, you provide the JNDI lookup name of the EJB to fetch. See Configuring FetchEJB 3.0 Services for more information about the parameters.

The output of a FetchEJB 3.0 adapter service is the remote EJB(s), and typically serves as the input to an InvokeEJB 3.0 adapter service. For more information, see InvokeEJB 3.0 Adapter Service.