Beginning EJB 3 Java EE 7 Edition

Develop powerful, standards-based, back-end business logic with Beginning EJB 3, Java EE 7 Edition. Led by an author team with 20 years of combined Enterprise JavaBeans experience, you'll learn how to use the new EJB 3.2 APIs. You'll gain the knowledge and skills you’ll need to create the complex enterprise applications that run today's transactions and more.

Targeted at Java and Java EE developers, with and without prior EJB experience, Beginning EJB 3 is packed with practical insights, strategy tips, and code examples. As each chapter unfolds, you'll not only explore a new area of the spec; you'll also see how you can apply it to your own applications through specific examples.

Beginning EJB 3 will serve not only as a reference, but it will also function as a how-to guide and repository of practical examples to which you can refer as you build your own applications. It will help you harness the power of EJBs and take your Java EE 7 development to the next level.

What you’ll learn How to employ session beans, message-driven beans, and entity beans

How to use the updated EJB 3 persistence and object-relational mappings

How to choose which EJB option is right for your application

How to enrich your application’s behavior with CDI services

How to test the EJB container inside and out

How to migrate from older EJB to the newest EJB APIs Who this book is for

This book is for those Java and Java EE developers with and without prior EJB experience.

Table of Contents Introduction to the EJB 3 Architecture Session Beans Entities and the Java Persistence API Advanced Persistence Features Message-Driven Beans EJB and Web Services Integrating Session Beans, Entities, Message-Driven Beans, and Web Services Transaction Management EJB Performance and Testing Context and Dependency Injection (CDI) Packaging and Deployment EJB Client Applications EJB Runtime Environments