After an EJB is instantiated inside the Java EE container, but before it is handed out to a client, the container may initialize property data on the instance according to rules defined for that enterprise bean. This feature is called dependency injection, an external provider initializes the properties of an object instance instead of by the class itself.
■Note Injection uses a “push” model to push data out to the bean, and it occurs regardless of whether the bean actually uses the data. If there is a chance that the data will not be used, the bean may elect to avoid incurring the cost of the resource derivation by performing a Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) lookup in Java code to “pull” the
data, only if it is actually (or likely to be) used.
Common examples of dependency injection use in EJB are as follows:
• Injecting an EntityManager into a session bean for interacting with entities in a persistence unit
• Injecting a UserTransaction into a session bean that manages its transaction demarcation
Even though, the video below is for Spring framework, which is actually EJB’s alternative, it covers the Dependency Injection(DI) pretty well.
Sheberlik 