EJB provides a way to easily encapsulate business logic and reduce complexity by moving some difficult functionality/designs into deployment instead of development. Transaction requirements defined in the deployment of the EJB beans as opposed to part of the development of the EJB beans. (And they are easy to migrate/scale to many computers based on deployment configuration, again, making that task easier for developers since the programmer does not need to do anything special to achieve this.
Session beans contain the business logic (Servlets call them) Entity beans persist the info to the database. (Session beans call them) Message beans respond to JMS queues/topics. In reality, EJB is simply another design pattern... one that was over-hyped by the vendors, but can provide flexibility needed in some cases. On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 22:34, Josh wrote: > 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. > > -Josh > > "Rimmer, real dumplings, proper dumplings when they're properly > cooked to perfection, proper dumplings, should not bounce." > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nikola Milutinovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 3:31 PM > Subject: Re: Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) > > > > > Does Tomcat support EJB?..... > > > > No, it is not the task of Tomcat. > > > > > if not, is there a project to migrate tomcat to support EJB?... it will > be > > > a very nice feature... > > > > Other servers, like JBoss, are EJB containers, Tomcat can > connect/integrate with them. There is a version of JBoss that comes bundled > with Tomcat. Take a look at http://www.jboss.org/ > > > > Nix. > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- Virtually, Ned Wolpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4e75 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
