Preface

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) technology is a core part of the Java EE 5 specification. EJB is a framework for building enterprise-scale object-oriented, distributed, component-based business applications. EJB business applications are written in Java, are scalable and can be deployed on any platform that supports the EJB specification.

EJB applications are deployed to and execute under the control of an EJB container. The EJB container provides services typically required by enterprise applications such as security, transaction management, resource pooling, and systems management.

The EJB 3 specification, released in May 2006, is a radical change from previous versions of the technology. Developing business applications is considerably easier ...

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