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Java EE 8 Development with Eclipse - Third Edition

By : Ram Kulkarni
Book Image

Java EE 8 Development with Eclipse - Third Edition

By: Ram Kulkarni

Overview of this book

Java EE is one of the most popular tools for enterprise application design and development. With recent changes to Java EE 8 specifications, Java EE application development has become a lot simpler with the new specifications, some of which compete with the existing specifications. This guide provides a complete overview of developing highly performant, robust and secure enterprise applications with Java EE with Eclipse. The book begins by exploring different Java EE technologies and how to use them (JSP, JSF, JPA, JDBC, EJB, and more), along with suitable technologies for different scenarios. You will learn how to set up the development environment for Java EE applications and understand Java EE specifications in detail, with an emphasis on examples. The book takes you through deployment of an application in Tomcat, GlassFish Servers, and also in the cloud. It goes beyond the basics and covers topics like debugging, testing, deployment, and securing your Java EE applications. You'll also get to know techniques to develop cloud-ready microservices in Java EE.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Free Chapter
1
Introducing JEE and Eclipse
Index

Types of EJB


EJB can be of the following types according to the EJB3 specification:

  • Session bean:
    • Stateful session bean
    • Stateless session bean
    • Singleton session bean
  • Message-driven bean

We will discuss message-driven bean (MDB) in detail in a Chapter 10, Asynchronous Programming with JMS, when we learn about asynchronous processing of requests in the JEE application. In this chapter, we will focus on session beans.

Session beans

In general, session beans are meant to contain methods to execute the main business logic of the enterprise application. Any Plain Old Java Object (POJO) can be annotated with the appropriate EJB3-specific annotations to make it a session bean. Session beans come in three types.

Stateful session beans

One stateful session bean serves requests for one client only. There is one-to-one mapping between the stateful session bean and the client. Therefore, stateful beans can hold the state data for the client between multiple method calls. In our Course Management application, we...