April 2003
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
16h 53m
English
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 ...