3.5. Processing Layer Design

The processing layer is where the business logic is applied to a Web service request. Recall that Web service is an interoperable way to expose new or existing applications. Hence, regardless of the means you use to expose your application's functionality, the business logic design issues are the same. You must still design the business logic by considering such issues as using enterprise beans, exposing a local or a remote EJB interface model, using container-managed or bean-managed persistence, and so forth.

The issues and considerations for designing an application's processing or business logic layer, such as whether ...

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