August 2002
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
9h 35m
English

In Chapter 2, “Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB),” I provided information about EJB, but it was limited to the two commonly used beans: the session bean and the entity bean. They make up the skeleton of an enterprise application because they allow you to design and develop distributed applications. Although you can use session beans and entity beans to produce and consume messages with JMS, they can only be used for consuming messages synchronously. Sun Microsystems introduced another bean for asynchronous messaging with EJB 2.0: the message-driven bean. In this chapter, I will discuss the message-driven bean and provide ...
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