Organization
This book is organized into two parts: the technical manuscript followed by the JBoss workbook. The technical manuscript explains what EJB is, how it works, and when to use it. The JBoss workbook provides step-by-step instructions for installing, configuring, and running the examples from the manuscript on the JBoss 3.0 Application Server.
Part I: The Technical Manuscript
The technical manuscript is covered in Chapters 1-19 and is about 90% of the content for this book. Chapter 1-Chapter 18 were written by yours truly, Richard Monson-Haefel, while Chapter 19 was written by Keyton Weissenger and Shy Aberman. Here is a summary of these chapters and their content.
- Chapter 1
This chapter defines component transaction monitors and explains how they form the underlying technology of the Enterprise JavaBeans component model.
- Chapter 2
This chapter defines the architecture of the Enterprise JavaBeans component model and examines the difference between the three basic types of enterprise beans: entity beans, session beans, and message-driven beans.
- Chapter 3
This chapter explains how the EJB-compliant server manages an enterprise bean at runtime.
- Chapter 4
This chapter walks the reader through the development of some simple enterprise beans.
- Chapter 5
This chapter explains in detail how enterprise beans are accessed and used by remote, local, and web service client applications.
- Chapter 6
This chapter provides an explanation of how to develop basic container-managed entity beans. ...
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