Special Edition Using Enterprise JavaBeans™ 2.0

The Auction Example

With a subject as complex as EJB, it’s not always easy to illustrate the concepts using a short example that can be covered within a single chapter. With this in mind, we decided to introduce a central example early on and build on it throughout the book. Other examples will still be used where they’re helpful (for variety if nothing else), but having a core example to fall back on minimizes the background explanation needed whenever a new example is introduced. This approach should help you stay more focused on the details of EJB and make it easier to cover them without distraction. Of course, the background for any example must go somewhere, so the thought here is to get it out of the way early so that the remaining chapters ...