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Java EE 8 Development with Eclipse. - Third Edition

You're reading from  Java EE 8 Development with Eclipse. - Third Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781788833776
Pages 596 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
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1. Introducing JEE and Eclipse 2. Creating a Simple JEE Web Application 3. Source Control Management in Eclipse 4. Creating JEE Database Applications 5. Unit Testing 6. Debugging the JEE Application 7. Creating JEE Applications with EJB 8. Creating Web Applications with Spring MVC 9. Creating Web Services 10. Asynchronous Programming with JMS 11. Java CPU Profiling and Memory Tracking 12. Microservices 13. Deploying JEE Applications in the Cloud 14. Securing JEE Applications 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Creating a Course Management application using EJB


Let's now create the Course Management application that we created in Chapter 4, Creating JEE Database Applications, this time using EJBs. In Chapter 4, Creating JEE Database Applications, we created service classes (which were POJOs) for writing the business logic. We will replace them with EJBs. We will start by creating Eclipse projects for EJBs.

Creating EJB projects in Eclipse

EJBs are packaged in a JAR file. Web applications are packaged in a Web Application aRchive (WAR). If EJBs are to be accessed remotely, then the client needs to have access to business interfaces. Therefore, EJB business interfaces and shared objects are packaged in a separate JAR, called EJB client JAR. Furthermore, if EJBs and web applications are to be deployed as one single application, then they need to be packaged in an EAR.

So, in most cases the application with EJBs is not a single project, but four different projects:

  • EJB project that creates EJB JAR
  • EJB client...
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