Meaning of @PersistenceContext in JSF 1.2 Managed Beans

Question

JSF 1.2 specification allows injection of an entity manager into a managed bean via the @PersistenceContext annotation (JSR 252, p. 5-13).

What is the semantics of such an entity manager regarding transactions and lifecycle?

Is an EAR-scoped JTA-style persistence unit supposed to work here?

Answer 1

@Stateless
public class YourServiceBean implements YourService {
    @PersistenceContext(unitName="YourServicePU")
    EntityManager em;
    // ...
}

This will inject an EntityManager instance that you do not have to dispose of (the container takes care of it) and is supposed to play nice with container-managed transactions.