Creating JEE Applications with EJB

In the last chapter, we learned some techniques to debug JEE applications from Eclipse. In this chapter, we will shift our focus back to JEE application development and learn how to create and use Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB). If you recall the architecture of database applications in Chapter 4, Creating JEE Database Applications, we had JSP or a JSF page calling a JSP bean or a managed bean. The beans then called DAOs to execute the data access code. This separated code for the user interface, the business logic, and the database nicely. This would work for small or medium applications, but may prove to be a bottleneck in large enterprise applications; the application may not scale very well. If processing ...

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