> Don't suppose anybody can send me a pointer as to what EJB and Jboss
> actually achieve? All i managed to glean from their website were some pretty
> 3d variations on the usual "our product in the middle and some arrows"
> diagrams.
My knowledge of EJB is informational. EJB as are JEE components, managed by EJB
Servers, like JBoss. EJB main function is to introduce persistance and business logic,
in general, (can we say that persistance IS a part of business logic? :-)) into the
world of JEE applications.
Tomcat, from that view, is just one of the portals of a JEE application. So, the chain
of modules would be:
Web Server (Apache)
+
Servlet/JSP container (Tomcat)
+
EJB container (JBoss - EJBs, transactions, messages)
+
Persistant storage + other data portals (DBs, legacy APIs and other means information
exchange)
Nix.
