Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, 5th Edition

Chapter 22. Introduction

This workbook is designed to be a companion to O’Reilly’s Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, Fifth Edition, for users of JBoss™, an open source Java EE™ application server. Its goal is to provide step-by-step instructions for installing, configuring, and using JBoss, and for deploying and running the examples from Enterprise JavaBeans.

This workbook is based on the production release of JBoss 4.0.4 and many of the EJB 3.0 examples from Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, Fifth Edition. All of the examples will work properly with JBoss 4.0.4 and above, but not with earlier versions of JBoss.

Contents of the JBoss Workbook

The workbook is divided into three sections:

JBoss Installation and Configuration

Walks you through downloading, installing, and configuring JBoss. It also provides a brief overview of the structure of the JBoss installation.

Exercises

Contains step-by-step instructions for downloading, building, and running the example programs in Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, Fifth Edition (for brevity, the workbook refers to this book as “the EJB book”). The text also walks through the various deployment descriptors and source code to point out JBoss features and concerns.

Appendix

Provides useful information that did not fit neatly in the other sections, including a collection of XML snippets for configuring a few popular JDBC drivers from various database vendors.

The length of each exercise in the workbook depends on the level of configuration required, but generally, each exercise ...