Deployment descriptors describe the contents of deployment units and configure components and applications to their environment. They also externalize the relationships between components, so those ...

When using your deployment descriptor — ejb-jar.xml — to describe your Enterprise JavaBeans behavior when they’re made available by the object server, adding a few lines to the file will pre-set a ...

Some say Enterprise JavaBeans earned its reputation for complexity one burned out programmer at a time. But developers today have begun to notice that EJB 3 is an entirely different animal. Convention ...

The slogan “Write once, run anywhere” is Sun’s way of characterizing Java’s platform portability. However, to most Java developers, the slogan more closely represents a noble, and somewhat lofty, ...

Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) is a server-side component architecture for the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) platform, aiming to enable rapid and simplified development for distributed, transactional ...

The EJB 3.0 programming model has been simplified significantly. Learn migration approaches that help ferret out difficult issues you're likely to face when migrating J2EE apps. The programming model ...