Rob Stevenson

Enterprise JavaBeans (aka EJBs) are fast becoming a mainstay in Web-based business applications. They're not trivial to develop, though ­ at least not if you're developing them by hand and ignoring the EJB tools already available to automate (and thus simplify) your development tasks. If you earn your living as a professional Java programmer, you know that enterprise beans are nonvisual, server-side software components that conform to Sun Microsystems' EJB specification. Enterprise beans allow you to develop platform-neutral, distributed applications that run on virtually any EJB-compliant server. EJB technology simplifies server-side application development by delegating many of the common system-level programming tasks ­ transactional semantics, data persistence, security and workload management ­ to the EJB server providers. This allows you to focus primarily on ... (more)