Applied Enterprise JavaBeans™ Technology

Chapter 5. Introducing the case study

Overview

This chapter introduces a case study—the Prestige Bike Hire application— that will form the basis for many of the examples used throughout the rest of this book. The case study is of a system for managing the business of a motorcycle rental firm. The system maintains bookings for rental vehicles, calculates hire costs, and maintains customer accounts. The chapter presents the client’s requirements and outlines the architecture of the system that will be constructed. This case study has been chosen because it is complex enough to require the use of a number of EJBs of different types and demonstrate security and transaction management, but is not so large that we can’t present most of the relevant ...