DisableEJBStoreForNonDirtyBeans (IBM WebSphere Application Server, Release 8.5)

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public interface DisableEJBStoreForNonDirtyBeans
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Marker interface to indicate that an entity bean that implements it, should not have its ejbStore() method invoked if the persistent state of the bean has not been modified during the current transaction.
Note: Enabling this option results in behavior not compliant with the official EJB specification.
Normally, during transaction commit processing and prior to executing EJB application-specific "custom" finder methods, the EJB Container will invoke the ejbStore() container callback method on all entity beans enlisted in the transaction. This marker interface provides a mechanism to avoid these calls to ejbStore() when the persistent state of the entity bean has not been modified within the scope of the transaction.
DisableEJBStoreForNonDirtyBeans may be useful to applications which use EJB 2.x container managed persistence and also have significant code in their ejbStore() container callback method. If the application-provided ejbStore() method does not need to be called when the persistent state of the entity bean has not been modified, then the application may obtain a performance improvement by avoiding the call to ejbStore(). This may be achieved by declaring the entity bean implementation to implement this interface.
This interface is generally not useful when the application-provided ejbStore() method is empty. Entity beans that have not been modified will not be updated in the database regardless of this interface, so the only performance savings would be for the call overhead to the empty ejbStore() method.
Implementing this interface on an entity bean causes equivalent behavior as setting the disableEJBStoreForNonDirtyBeans field for that bean in the IBM deployment descriptor extensions (ibm-ejb-jar-ext.xmi) to "true", or as setting that bean's com/ibm/websphere/ejbcontainer/disableEJBStoreForNonDirtyBeans EJB environment variable to "true". For scenarios where many beans extend a single root class, it can be more convenient to have that class implement this marker interface than to individually set the environment variable or deployment descriptor extension field on each of the beans. Setting either the deployment descriptor extension or the environment variable to a value of "false" has no effect; a "false" value does not override the presence of the marker interface.
Note: the DisableEJBStoreForNonDirtyBeans interface is only useful for entity beans with EJB 2.x container managed persistence. It has no effect for entity beans with bean managed or EJB 1.x container managed persistence.

Since:

WAS 6.0.2