Enterprise JavaBeans : Developing Component-Based Distributed Applications (Paperback)

This example-filled book serves as an introduction and tutorial, and provides the in-depth information you need to handle real-world programming challenges.

This book presents an overview of the architecture, using a "Hello, world!" Enterprise JavaBeans system to illustrate basic concepts. The book then moves on to cover Session and Entity beans, how to write client programs that use Enterprise JavaBeans, and the packaging and deploying of Enterprise JavaBeans.

Key Feature
* The differences between stateful and stateless beans
* The differences between bean-managed and container-managed Entity beans
* How to call a bean from a servlet, another bean, or an applet
* How to obtain and examine Enterprise JavaBeans metadata
* How to identify deployment descriptors and the values they contain
* How to use access control lists to set up permissions on an Enterprise JavaBeans server
* How a bean can retrieve and test a clients identity

Table of Contents
1. The Big Picture
2. EJB's Architecture
3. Hello, EJB!
4. Writing EJB Session Beans
5. Writing EJB Entity Beans
6. EJB Clients
7. Deployment
8. Tips, Tricks, and Traps for Building Distributed and Other Systems
9. A Nontrival Example
10. Implementations and Future Directions