Sams Teach Yourself BEA WebLogic Server 7.0™ in 21 Days

Day 11. Creating Stateless Session Beans

Yesterday, you gained an understanding of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) and studied the first type of EJB, the stateful session bean. Yesterday's lesson also covered concepts such as components of a stateful session bean, the stateful session bean life cycle, and steps involved in building and deploying stateful session beans. You wrote a sample application that modeled the functions and activities in a restaurant with the customer, waiter, and chef as the primary actors. This example made you aware of how real-life entities can be easily modeled into EJBs and helped you identify the EJB to which these entities are mapped based on their activities (whether state maintenance is required or not required, and ...