The methodType is used to denote a method of an enterprise
	  bean's business, home, component, and/or web service endpoint
	  interface, or, in the case of a message-driven bean, the
	  bean's message listener method, or a set of such
	  methods. The ejb-name element must be the name of one of the
	  enterprise beans declared in the deployment descriptor; the
	  optional method-intf element allows to distinguish between a
	  method with the same signature that is multiply defined
	  across the business, home, component, and/or web service
          endpoint nterfaces; the method-name element specifies the
          method name; and the optional method-params elements identify
          a single method among multiple methods with an overloaded
	  method name.
	  There are three possible styles of using methodType element
	  within a method element:
	  1.
	  <method>
	      <ejb-name>EJBNAME</ejb-name>
	      <method-name>*</method-name>
	  </method>
	     This style is used to refer to all the methods of the
	     specified enterprise bean's business, home, component,
             and/or web service endpoint interfaces.
	  2.
	  <method>
	      <ejb-name>EJBNAME</ejb-name>
	      <method-name>METHOD</method-name>
	  </method>
	     This style is used to refer to the specified method of
	     the specified enterprise bean. If there are multiple
	     methods with the same overloaded name, the element of
	     this style refers to all the methods with the overloaded
	     name.
	  3.
	  <method>
	      <ejb-name>EJBNAME</ejb-name>
	      <method-name>METHOD</method-name>
	      <method-params>
		  <method-param>PARAM-1</method-param>
		  <method-param>PARAM-2</method-param>
		  ...
		  <method-param>PARAM-n</method-param>
	      </method-params>
	  </method>
	     This style is used to refer to a single method within a
	     set of methods with an overloaded name. PARAM-1 through
	     PARAM-n are the fully-qualified Java types of the
	     method's input parameters (if the method has no input
	     arguments, the method-params element contains no
	     method-param elements). Arrays are specified by the
	     array element's type, followed by one or more pair of
	     square brackets (e.g. int[][]). If there are multiple
	     methods with the same overloaded name, this style refers
	     to all of the overloaded methods.
	  Examples:
	  Style 1: The following method element refers to all the
	  methods of the EmployeeService bean's business, home,
          component, and/or web service endpoint interfaces:
	  <method>
	      <ejb-name>EmployeeService</ejb-name>
	      <method-name>*</method-name>
	  </method>
	  Style 2: The following method element refers to all the
	  create methods of the EmployeeService bean's home
	  interface(s).
	  <method>
	      <ejb-name>EmployeeService</ejb-name>
	      <method-name>create</method-name>
	  </method>
	  Style 3: The following method element refers to the
	  create(String firstName, String LastName) method of the
	  EmployeeService bean's home interface(s).
	  <method>
	      <ejb-name>EmployeeService</ejb-name>
	      <method-name>create</method-name>
	      <method-params>
		  <method-param>java.lang.String</method-param>
		  <method-param>java.lang.String</method-param>
	      </method-params>
	  </method>
	  The following example illustrates a Style 3 element with
	  more complex parameter types. The method
	  foobar(char s, int i, int[] iar, mypackage.MyClass mycl,
	  mypackage.MyClass[][] myclaar) would be specified as:
	  <method>
	      <ejb-name>EmployeeService</ejb-name>
	      <method-name>foobar</method-name>
	      <method-params>
		  <method-param>char</method-param>
		  <method-param>int</method-param>
		  <method-param>int[]</method-param>
		  <method-param>mypackage.MyClass</method-param>
		  <method-param>mypackage.MyClass[][]</method-param>
	      </method-params>
	  </method>
	  The optional method-intf element can be used when it becomes
	  necessary to differentiate between a method that is multiply
	  defined across the enterprise bean's business, home, component,
          and/or web service endpoint interfaces with the same name and
	  signature. However, if the same method is a method of both the
          local business interface, and the local component interface,
          the same attribute applies to the method for both interfaces.
          Likewise, if the same method is a method of both the remote
          business interface and the remote component interface, the same
          attribute applies to the method for both interfaces.
	  For example, the method element
	  <method>
	      <ejb-name>EmployeeService</ejb-name>
	      <method-intf>Remote</method-intf>
	      <method-name>create</method-name>
	      <method-params>
		  <method-param>java.lang.String</method-param>
		  <method-param>java.lang.String</method-param>
	      </method-params>
	  </method>
	  can be used to differentiate the create(String, String)
	  method defined in the remote interface from the
	  create(String, String) method defined in the remote home
	  interface, which would be defined as
	  <method>
	      <ejb-name>EmployeeService</ejb-name>
	      <method-intf>Home</method-intf>
	      <method-name>create</method-name>
	      <method-params>
		  <method-param>java.lang.String</method-param>
		  <method-param>java.lang.String</method-param>
	      </method-params>
	  </method>
	  and the create method that is defined in the local home
	  interface which would be defined as
	  <method>
	      <ejb-name>EmployeeService</ejb-name>
	      <method-intf>LocalHome</method-intf>
	      <method-name>create</method-name>
	      <method-params>
		  <method-param>java.lang.String</method-param>
		  <method-param>java.lang.String</method-param>
	      </method-params>
	  </method>
	  The method-intf element can be used with all three Styles
	  of the method element usage. For example, the following
	  method element example could be used to refer to all the
	  methods of the EmployeeService bean's remote home interface
          and the remote business interface.
	  <method>
	      <ejb-name>EmployeeService</ejb-name>
	      <method-intf>Home</method-intf>
	      <method-name>*</method-name>
	  </method>

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