Enterprise JavaBeans, Fourth Edition

Chapter 20. Introduction

This workbook is designed to be a companion for O’Reilly’s Enterprise JavaBeans, Fourth Edition, by Richard Monson-Haefel, for users of JBoss™, an open-source J2EE™ application server. The goal of this workbook 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 and includes all the EJB 2.0 examples from the Enterprise JavaBeans, Fourth Edition book. All the examples in this workbook will work properly with JBoss 4.0 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. 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, Fourth Edition (for brevity, this workbook calls it “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 workbook text for each exercise depends on the amount of configuration ...