Day 3. Understanding Session Beans

Session beans were first introduced in March of 1998 when Sun Microsystems published the EJB 1.0 specification.

A session bean is one type of enterprise bean that resides in EJB container. Session beans model business processes. They provide a robust way for handling sessions in a J2EE application.

Today's road map:

  • Learn the fundamentals of session beans, and their characteristics and types

  • Learn how the concepts of instance pooling, activation, and passivation are applicable to session beans

  • Learn session bean methods and examine their life cycle diagrams

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