Homehandle

Home handle is an object that identifies an enterprise bean. A client may serialize the handle, and then later deserialize it to obtain a reference to the enterprise bean.

The javax.ejb.HomeHandle is similar to javax.ejb.Handle. Just as the Handle is used to store and retrieve reference to EJB objects, the HomeHandle is used to store and retrieve remote references to EJB homes. HomeHandle can be stored and later used to access an EJB home remote refrence the same way that a Handle can be serialized and later used to access an EJB object's remoe reference.