Chapter 3. Building business logic with session beans
This chapter covers
- Stateless session beans
- Stateful session beans
- Singleton beans
- Asynchronous beans
At the heart of any enterprise application is its business logic. In an ideal world, application developers should mainly be concerned with implementing business logic, while concerns like presentation, persistence, and integration should largely be window dressing. From this perspective, session beans are the most important part of the EJB technology because their purpose in life is to model high-level business processes.
If you think of a business system as a horse-drawn chariot carrying the Greco-Roman champion to battle, session beans are the driver. Session beans utilize data and system ...
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