Summary

This chapter described the basic architecture and concepts of EJBs by looking at the main building blocks of the EJB framework: the server, the EJB container, the EJB components and its interfaces, the deployment descriptor, and the client.

We also introduced a sample banking application as the base for further discussions.

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