Startup beans

A startup bean is a session EJB that loads and runs before an application starts. The Bank Transformation Toolkit uses the startup beans to do the initialization for some of its components, such as the CHA, Formatter, and services. Startup beans can also do clean up when the application stops.

Startup beans provides the following advantages:

It is the WebSphere Application Server or WebSphere Process Server that provides the runtime environment for the startup beans. You can find more information about the startup beans from the product documentation of WebSphere Application Server or WebSphere Process Server.