Why EJBs?
Numerous Web sites are up and running using Java without any EJB technology. Developers have been using servlet/JSP models and managing transactions themselves using commit and rollback functionality that is built into JDBC without the help of application servers.
But when doing so, the application developers are confronted with many challenges. Some of the most important ones are managing concurrency, persistence and transactions. As a result, the developers have to either develop proprietary code or buy supporting frameworks.
These problems are solved by using enterprise beans. The use of enterprise beans allow developers to focus on the business logic and release them from coding infrastructure and middleware logic, and developers ...
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