BEA WebLogic Server™ 8.1 Unleashed

EJB Implementation

So far, we've looked at the different types of EJBs as defined by the specification along with the list of services the EJB container offers. Now let's look at what constitutes an enterprise bean. An Enterprise JavaBean is not a single class. An enterprise bean consists of a set of Java files along with a set of XML files that contain the deployment descriptors describing the enterprise bean. For implementing a Session or Entity bean, the EJB developer has to define the component interfaces, the home interface, and a bean class. In the case of Entity beans, the EJB developer could also define a primary key class. Message-Driven beans are different from the Session and Entity bean types in that they require only the bean class ...