Enterprise JavaBeans

Although this book is targeted toward the Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE), a brief crossover into the enterprise side is necessary to make some terminology clear. With the increasing emphasis on server-side Java development, you will likely hear the term Enterprise JavaBeans, or EJB, as often, if not more so, than JavaBeans itself. Both technologies are based on components, but their uses are quite different. EJB is a component model for building and deploying Java in a distributed multitier environment. This technology extends the JavaBeans component model to support server components.

Partitioning Your Applications

Modern object-oriented designs typically split application design into three pieces. These pieces are the user ...

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