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Originally published at Internet.comJava Programming, Lecture Notes #1320 * Preface * Preview * Overview * A Middle-Tier Server * A J2EE Compliant Server * Summary * Where To From Here? -----------------------------------
Preface
This is one in a series of lessons designed to teach you about Sun's Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB).
Time to regroup
The previous lessons in this series have provided accelerated instructions to help you get your first enterprise bean up and running as quickly as possible. Quite a few lessons were required to accomplish that objective, not because it is especially difficult to write enterprise beans, but rather because it is difficult to deploy the beans in a J2EE server.
A cookbook approach
In working through the accelerated lessons, I provided the information more or less in a cookbook fashion. That is to say, I told you what to do, and not necessarily why to do it.
A change of pace
Now that you have your first enterprise bean running successfully in your J2EE server, it is time to sit back, relax, take a deep breath, and embark on the task of understanding Enterprise JavaBeans.
That will be the purpose of the remaining lesson in this series on EJB - to help you really understand what enterprise beans are, how to write them, and how to use them to advantage...
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