April 2003
Intermediate to advanced
750 pages
16h 53m
English
In this section, we briefly the development and deployment cycle of an enterprise bean.
The EJB developer provides for an enterprise bean:
EJB class (has to be an abstract class for container-managed persistence in EJB 2.0).
Home and component interface for a session and entity bean (remote or local or both).
Primary key class for an entity bean. If the primary key is a Java class (not a primitive type, such as int), the primary key class is optional.
The classes and interfaces are packaged in an EJB JAR file, together with an XML-based deployment descriptor.
Before an enterprise bean can be installed in an application server, the enterprise bean has to be deployed. During ...
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