The WebSphere startup bean service was superseded by the startup beans in Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.1. The service is deprecated in WebSphere Application Server traditional V8.0 and is not available on Liberty.

This rule flags Java code that has references to the com.ibm.websphere.startupservice package.

For information about EJB 3.1 startup beans, see the following resources:

• Using startup beans IBM documentation
• javax.ejb.Startup annotation Java documentation
• Developing Enterprise JavaBeans Applications Redpaper