| Featuring myriad changes from its previous versions, EJB 3.0 boasts a very different programming and deployment model, with nearly every aspect of development affected. Even the most experienced EBJ and J2EE developers will need to relearn how to best use EJB to develop mission-critical applications. The author team has taken their combined skills in architecture, development, consulting, and knowledge transfer to explain the various changes to EJB 3.0 as well as the rationale behind these changes. You'll learn the concepts & techniques for authoring distributed, enterprise components in Java from the ground up. You'll learn:
- How to implement EJB 3.0 beans, with emphasis on session beans (stateful & stateless) and message-driven beans;
- Both basic & advanced concepts (such as inheritance, relationships, and so on) of Java Persistence API defined entities;
- How to develop and deploy EJB 3.0 Web services;
- How to secure EJB applications;
- How to integrate EJB applications with the outside world via the Java EE Connector technology;
- Tips & techniques for designing and deploying EJB for better performance;
- How clustering in large-scale EJB systems works;
- Best practices for EJB application design, development, and testing. | |
