Summary

Today you studied the first of the three types of Enterprise JavaBeans supported by WebLogic Server. This day started with a brief introduction to understanding the concepts of EJBs and WebLogic Server's support for the EJB 2.0 specification.

After this you started with the main topic of this day, the stateful session bean. The life cycle of a stateful session bean was covered, and you looked at the various callback methods that are invoked by the EJB container at different stages in the life cycle of the stateful session bean. You then looked at the flowchart to understand the steps involved in building a stateful session bean.

Next you looked at some of the differentiators in the two types of session beans: stateful session beans and ...

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