What’s Next?
I’ve covered a lot of EJB concepts in this chapter, rarely taking a break. Hopefully you’ve been able to get everything working with the help of the appendixes, and now have the complete set of Forethought entities available for use. Even more importantly, you should have an understanding of the advanced concepts in EJB, and of how to use them in your own applications.
In the next chapter, you’ll complement your work on entity beans, the base of the Forethought application, with access to a directory server, which completes the application foundation. We’ll look at JNDI again and see how it can help in accessing LDAP providers, as well as beans and Java objects bound to the registry. By the end of the next chapter, you’ll have a complete data layer, and can move on to the business layer of the application. So buckle up, fire up your directory server, and let’s get to it.
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