Deployment descriptors describe the contents of deployment units and configure components and applications to their environment. They also externalize the relationships between components, so those ...

The slogan “Write once, run anywhere” is Sun’s way of characterizing Java’s platform portability. However, to most Java developers, the slogan more closely represents a noble, and somewhat lofty, ...

Some say Enterprise JavaBeans earned its reputation for complexity one burned out programmer at a time. But developers today have begun to notice that EJB 3 is an entirely different animal. Convention ...

When using your deployment descriptor — ejb-jar.xml — to describe your Enterprise JavaBeans behavior when they’re made available by the object server, adding a few lines to the file will pre-set a ...

Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) is a server-side component architecture for the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) platform, aiming to enable rapid and simplified development for distributed, transactional ...

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