EJBs and Web Applications
EJBs have two important but distinct characteristics:
They are distributed components.
They provide access to the services of the EJB container.
These topics will be considered more extensively in the next chapter, but in the context of Web applications, the second characteristic is the most attractive. One type of EJB is particularly alluring: container-managed persistent entity beans. Because the EJB container automatically takes care of storing and retrieving a CMP bean's data, CMP beans can completely free a developer from having to write database access code.
EJBs, and particularly CMP entity beans, bear a superficial resemblance to standard JavaBeans; after obtaining a bean (using a few mysterious lines of code), ...
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