EJB™ 2.1 Kick Start

Chapter 8. Session Bean Reference

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Stateful and Stateless Session Beans

• Session Bean Component Interface

• Business Method Declarations in Web Service Endpoint Interfaces

• Remote and Local Session Bean Home Interfaces

• Session Bean Implementations

Session Beans are used to model and implement large-grained service-oriented objects. In contrast to Entity Beans, Session Beans tend to be more laden with behavior (manifested in methods) than with state. BookEaz’s system contains one such service-oriented object, the Checkout Session Bean.

EJB 2.1 enables Web service endpoints to be implemented as Session Beans. Chapter 10, “EJB 2.1 Web Service and ...