BEA WebLogic Server™ 8.1 Unleashed
by Mark Artiges, Gupreet Singh Bhasin, Bernard Ciconte, Malcolm Garland, Saranathan Govindarajan, James Huang, Subramanian Kovilmadam, Kunal Mittal, Paul J. Perrone, Tom Schwenk, Steve Steffen
EJB Container
Now let's look at the heart of the any enterprise bean implementation: the EJB container. Sun's specification for Enterprise JavaBeans deals with the functions of the container provider in detail, and the defined component model is described in terms of the container's responsibilities with respect to each of the enterprise bean type.
Container Defined
The EJB container provides an operational environment for all the enterprise bean types discussed earlier. It represents the EJB runtime holder that resides within the scope of the EJB server, and is more of a logical entity than a physical resource. In the current specification, the server provider isn't differentiated from the container provider. There's no clear demarcation between ...
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