Chapter 16. J2EE/EJB: A Case Study of an Industry-Standard Computing Infrastructure

with Anna Liu

Note: Anna Liu is a senior research engineer at the Software Architecture and Technologies Group, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia. She is also an adjunct senior academic at the University of Sydney.

Write Once, Run Everywhere

—Sun Microsystems's mantra for Java

Write Once, Test Everywhere

—Cynical Java programmers

This chapter presents an overview of Sun Microsystems's Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) architecture specification, as well as an important portion of that specification, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB). J2EE provides a standard description of how distributed object-oriented programs written in Java should be designed and developed and how ...

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