Accessing a non-relational store with a container-managed persistence bean via a web service function

A server comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a storage device connected to the processor, wherein the storage device is encoded with instructions, and wherein the instructions when executed on the processor comprise:
• receiving a key parameter from a container-managed persistent bean,
• determining whether the container-managed persistent bean is associated with a non-relational data store, wherein the determining whether the container-managed persistent bean is associated with the non-relational data store is further based on deployment description extension settings specified by a bean assembler, wherein the determining whether the container-managed persistent bean is associated with the non-relational data store further comprises determining whether the container-managed persistent bean is marked as non-relational, wherein a method in the container-managed persistent bean causes a persistent helper method in a persistence manager to be invoked, and wherein the persistent helper method in the persistence manager performs the determining,
• if the container-managed persistent bean is not associated with the non-relational data store, inserting the key parameter into a prepared statement and communicating the key parameter to a relational data store, and
• if the container-managed persistent bean is associated with the non-relational data store, creating a web service input message with the key parameter and invoking a web service function with the web service input message, wherein the web service function communicates the web service input message to the non-relational data store, wherein the invoking further comprises invoking the web service function with the web service input message without using an interface to the non-relational data store.