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Enterprise JavaBeans

This chapter describes the development and deployment of Enterprise JavaBeans in the Oracle8i server environment. It is not a complete tutorial on EJBs and the EJB architecture, but it is intended to give you enough information to start developing reasonably complicated EJB applications.

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Defining Enterprise JavaBeans

• What is an Enterprise JavaBean?

• Implementing an EJB

• The EJB Architecture

• Parameter Passing

• A First EJB Application

• Deploying an EJB

• Programming Techniques

• Programming Restrictions

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