EJB 3
The following documentation is a guide on how to use EJB 3. You can also obtain more information regarding some of the topics that will be discussed
The site has been comprised of reading the following books and real world experience, if you are new to EJB I highly recommend that you should purchase these books as it contains far more information than this web site contains and of course the Official EJB web site contains all the documentation you will ever need.
Please feel free to email me any constructive criticism you have with the site as any additional knowledge or mistakes that I have made would be most welcomed.
EJB Introduction| EJB overview | |
| EJB Types | |
| Inside EJBs | |
| Unit Testing |
| Metadata Annotations | |
| Dependency Injection | |
| Test Application | |
| Business Logic with Session Beans | |
| Message-Driven Beans | |
| Persisting Data with JPA |
| Session Beans | |
| Session Bean Anatomy | |
| Bean Lifecycle | |
| Stateless Session Beans | |
| Stateful Session Beans | |
| Stateless and Stateful differences | |
| Session Bean Clients | |
| Performance |
| Messaging Concepts | |
| Java Messaging Service (JMS) | |
| MDB Annotations | |
| MDB Lifecycle | |
| MDB Best Practices |
| EJB Internals | |
| DI and JNDI | |
| Interceptors | |
| EJB 3 Timer Services |
| Transaction Introduction | |
| Container Managed Transaction (CMT) | |
| Bean Managed Transaction (BMT) | |
| EJB Security |
| Domain Modeling | |
| Entity Annotations | |
| Entity Relationships |
| Impedance Mismatch | |
| Mapping Objects to Databases | |
| Mapping Entities | |
| Secondary Tables | |
| Primary Keys | |
| Mapping Entity Relationships | |
| Mapping Inheritance |
| EntityManager Introduction | |
| Entity Lifecycle | |
| EntityManager Instances | |
| Managing Persistance Operations | |
| Entity Lifecycle Listeners | |
| Best Practices |
| Query API | |
| JPQL | |
| Native SQL queries |
| Application Packaging | |
| Class Loading | |
| Deployment Descriptors v Annotations |
| Design Patterns | |
| Presentation | |
| Persistence | |
| Application | |
| Session Beans | |
| Session Beans and Helper Classes |
| EJB 2 migration (A number of topics are discussed) |
| What is a Web Service | |
| Web Service Components | |
| SOAP Message | |
| WSDL | |
| JAX-WS |
| RMI and JNDI |
| The official EJB web site |
EJB 3 Books |
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| EJB 3 in Action - Debu Panda, Reza Rahman and Derek Lane | This book is a lot easier read than the O'Reilly version, it is definiately more of a beginners book. It covers just the basics which what a beginner needs and also cross-references the old EJB 2 version, which makes a case for upgrading to EJB 3. There is also some referencing with Spring which all helps when learn a new technology. |
| Enterprise Java Beans 3.0 - Richard Monson-Haefel, Bill Burke | This book is a very heavy read and if you are new to EJB (like myself) then I advise you to read the above book first, although a very good book try to pace yourself otherwise you will become easily bored. |
| Java Persistence with Hibernate - Christian Bauer, Gavin King | This book goes in to much more depth than the two books above regarding Java Persistence, so it compliments them both. As with all the Manning books they are easy to read and ideal for a beginner developer like myself. |
| Beginning POJO's - Brian Sam-Bodden | Just started to read this so will update his page when finished |
| POJO's in action - Chris Richardson | Just started to read this so will update his page when finished |
| Head First EJB - Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates | I love the Head First books, they are fun and very easy reading, although this version is dated (EJB 2), it worth reading as you get a background on what EJB 3 is trying to archive, also some of the topics are still irrevilant and help to explain in a graphical way. |