BEA® WebLogic Platform 7

Chapter 20. Developing Business Logic—Session Beans

In This Chapter

• Introducing Session Beans

• Session Bean Types

• A Practitioner’s Approach to Understanding Session Beans

• The Life Cycle of Stateless Session Beans

• The Life Cycle of Stateful Session Beans

• Testing the Life Cycle of Stateful Session Beans

• Programming Transactions in Session Beans

Introducing Session Beans

A session bean is a synchronous Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) type that enables you to model real-world business logic in the form of a reuseable and portable J2EE component. Hence, a session bean resides completely within the context of an EJB container (WebLogic Server).

The following are the general characteristics of session beans:

• From a client perspective, a session bean is a nonpersistent ...