Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) is a specification for developing large-scale, distributed business applications on the Java platform. EJB 1.0 was released in 1998. The most current release, EJB 3.2.3, has ...
Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 simplifies the enterprise bean architecture and provides enhanced and more powerful features. The new specification leverages the annotations metadata facility introduced in ...
Richard Monson-Haefel is the author of Enterprise JavaBeans, 3rd Edition, Java Message Service and one of the world's leading experts on Enterprise Java. He is co-founder of OpenEJB, an open source ...
It is also important to understand what EJB is not; despite the similar names, Enterprise JavaBeans have almost nothing to do with run-of-the-mill JavaBeans. JavaBeans have a standard API that allows ...
The EJB Best Practices chapter discusses best practices in terms of design, development, building, testing and working with EJB. These guidelines will help in answering some of the dilemmas you face ...