Chapter 21. Activation Services

Activation services are fundamental enterprise component services used to automatically activate objects in memory from some dormant state based on a component client's request. This chapter describes the basic concepts behind activation services and gives specific descriptions of the predominant activation service models encountered in enterprise Java development endeavors. Because activation services are largely transparent to the enterprise engineer, our coverage is necessarily overview material by nature. ...

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