Chapter 17. Enterprise JavaBeans

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When used appropriately, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) provides a powerful way to centralize all the business logic and database access of many enterprise applications into a single tightly controlled bundle residing under a single platform. By using EJB, you can ensure that a change in business rules needs to be replicated only on the EJB server instead of over a half dozen applications, but only on the EJB server.

That being said, EJBs add an entire layer of complexity to an application. It's important ...

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