Execute some logic before every stateless bean method

Question

I need to execute a logic before every call in a stateless bean method.

Example:

class MyStatelessBean
{
   void myPreExecutionLogic()
   {
       System.out.println("pre method execution logic");
   }

   void method1()
   {
       System.out.println("method 1");
   }

   void method2()
   {
       System.out.println("method 2");
   }
}

There is a way of doing this using EJB? Registering some kind of listener or annotating the myPreExecutionLogic like @PreConstruct?

Answer 1

If you are using EJB3, you can use Interceptors and @AroundInvoke

Set up an interceptor class with the @AroundInvoke annotation

public class MyInterceptor {

    @AroundInvoke
    public Object doSomethingBefore(InvocationContext inv) {
         // Do your stuff here.
         return inv.proceed();
    }
}

Then annotate your ejb methods with the class name

public class MyStatelessBean {

       @Interceptors ( {MyInterceptor.class} )
       public void myMethod1() {

Answer 2

A little variation of Kal's answer, I managed to make the method in the same class as the example declared (reminds me of junits @Before).

Also don't forget the "throws Exception" of the method signature for exceptions thrown from the actual method call inside ctx.proceed()

class MyStatelessBean
{

    @AroundInvoke
    public Object myPreExecutionLogic(InvocationContext ctx) throws Exception{
        System.out.println("pre method execution logic");

        return ctx.proceed();
    }

   void method1()
   {
       System.out.println("method 1");
   }

   void method2()
   {
       System.out.println("method 2");
   }
}