12. Java Persistence and Enterprise Java Beans Performance

Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) is a component-based architecture for large scale, distributed, transaction-oriented enterprise applications. Enterprise beans are the server side components in this architecture that run within an EJB container of the application server. Some of the salient characteristics of the enterprise bean instances are they are created and managed at runtime by the EJB container, can be customized at deployment time, are portable across EJB compliant containers, can make use of container provided services such as security and transactions, which can be specified separately from the business logic, and their access is mediated by the container.

The EJB container provides ...

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