Chapter 3. Enterprise Applications
No technology exists in a vacuum, and JPA is no different in this regard. Although the fat-client style of application demonstrated in the previous chapter is a viable use of JPA, the majority of enterprise Java applications are deployed to a Java EE application server. Therefore it is essential to understand the components that make up a Java EE application and the role of JPA in this environment.
We will begin with an overview of the major Java EE technologies relevant to persistence. As part of this overview, we will also detour into the EJB component model, demonstrating the basic syntax for stateless, stateful, singleton, and message-driven beans. Even if you have experience with previous versions of these ...
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