Understanding Enterprise JavaBeans
Enterprise JavaBeans is an architecture that allows you to perform transactional, component-based distributed computing. EJBs are commonly confused with JavaBeans. JavaBeans are software components that run on the client side and implement client-side GUI interfaces, whereas EJBs are software components that run in a server. EJBs can be one of two types:
Session beans— Used to implement session tasks. For example, a session bean can include methods that query the customers table.
Entity beans— Used to implement business entities. For example, an entity bean can represent a row in the customer table.
Note
Session beans can be used instead of stored procedures because they implement the same functionality and have ...
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