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CHAPTER10

Advanced Thinking with Enterprise Beans

The goal of the Enterprise Bean container is to allow Enterprise Beans to do what they are best at: thinking.

Everyone knows that in order to think best, it’s best to have peace and quiet. You need to be relieved temporarily of the details of everyday life that interrupt the thought process. So it is with Enterprise Beans: the Enterprise Bean container manages several aspects of programming a server-side component that clears a path for the bean to focus on its intended application logic. Let’s look again at Figure 10-1, which we first saw in Chapter 9.

FIGURE 10-1. The services of the Enterprise ...

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