Chapter 2. Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)

It would be correct to say that Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) is the foundation of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE). What is an EJB? What does it do? What is its role in Java Message Service (JMS)? All the details of EJB technology cannot be explained in one chapter, but it is vital to include a discussion of EJB at the beginning of a book about JMS.

Briefly, EJB is a server-side component model of J2EE. If you develop a Java distributed application, you might need EJB in your project. In the past, there were mainly two types of programming models: programs written for personal computers or programs written for ...

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