Table of Contents

Preface; Author’s Note; Who Should Read This Book; How This Book Is Organized; Software and Versions; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; Comments and Questions; Acknowledgments; Why Enterprise JavaBeans?; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 The Problem Domain; Chapter 2: Component Types; 2.1 Server-Side Component Types; 2.2 Entity Beans; 2.3 The Model Isn’t Everything; Chapter 3: Container Services; 3.1 Dependency Injection (DI); 3.2 Concurrency; 3.3 Instance Pooling/Caching; 3.4 Transactions; 3.5 Security; 3.6 Timers; 3.7 Naming and Object Stores; 3.8 Interoperability; 3.9 Lifecycle Callbacks; 3.10 Interceptors; 3.11 Platform Integration; 3.12 Bringing It Together; Chapter 4: Developing Your First EJBs; 4.1 Step 1: Preparation; 4.2 Step 2: Coding the EJB; 4.3 Summary; Server-Side Component Models; Chapter 5: The Stateless Session Bean; 5.1 The XML Deployment Descriptor; 5.2 SessionContext; 5.3 The Lifecycle of a Stateless Session Bean; 5.4 Example: The EncryptionEJB; 5.5 Asynchronous Methods; Chapter 6: The Stateful Session Bean; 6.1 The Lifecycle of a Stateful Session Bean; 6.2 Example: The FileTransferEJB; Chapter 7: The Singleton Session Bean; 7.1 Concurrency; 7.2 Lifecycle; 7.3 Example: The RSSCacheEJB; Chapter 8: Message-Driven Beans; 8.1 JMS and Message-Driven Beans; 8.2 JMS-Based Message-Driven Beans; 8.3 The Lifecycle of a Message-Driven Bean; 8.4 Connector-Based Message-Driven Beans; 8.5 Message Linking; EJB and Persistence; Chapter 9: Persistence: EntityManager; 9.1 Entities Are POJOs; 9.2 Managed Versus Unmanaged Entities; 9.3 Packaging a Persistence Unit; 9.4 Obtaining an EntityManager; 9.5 Interacting with an EntityManager; 9.6 Example: A Persistent Employee Registry; Chapter 10: Mapping Persistent Objects; 10.1 The Programming Model; 10.2 Basic Relational Mapping; 10.3 Primary Keys; 10.4 Property Mappings; 10.5 @Embedded Objects; Chapter 11: Entity Relationships; 11.1 The Seven Relationship Types; 11.2 Mapping Collection-Based Relationships; 11.3 Detached Entities and FetchType; 11.4 Cascading; Chapter 12: Entity Inheritance; 12.1 Single Table per Class Hierarchy; 12.2 Table per Concrete Class; 12.3 Table per Subclass; 12.4 Mixing Strategies; 12.5 Nonentity Base Classes; Chapter 13: Queries, the Criteria API, and JPA QL; 13.1 Query API; 13.2 JPA QL; 13.3 Native Queries; 13.4 Named Queries; Chapter 14: Entity Callbacks and Listeners; 14.1 Callback Events; 14.2 Callbacks on Entity Classes; 14.3 Entity Listeners; Container Services; Chapter 15: Security; 15.1 Authentication and Identity; 15.2 Authorization; 15.3 Example: A Secured School; Chapter 16: JNDI, the ENC, and Injection; 16.1 Global JNDI; 16.2 The JNDI ENC; 16.3 Reference and Injection Types; Chapter 17: Transactions; 17.1 ACID Transactions; 17.2 Declarative Transaction Management; 17.3 Isolation and Database Locking; 17.4 Nontransactional EJBs; 17.5 Explicit Transaction Management; 17.6 Exceptions and Transactions; 17.7 Transactional Stateful Session Beans; 17.8 Conversational Persistence Contexts; Chapter 18: Interceptors; 18.1 Intercepting Methods; 18.2 Interceptors and Injection; 18.3 Intercepting Lifecycle Events; 18.4 Exception Handling; 18.5 Interceptor Lifecycle; 18.6 Bean Class @AroundInvoke Methods; Chapter 19: Timer Service; 19.1 Example: A Batch Credit Card Processing System; 19.2 Transactions; 19.3 Stateless Session Bean Timers; 19.4 Message-Driven Bean Timers; Chapter 20: EJB 3.1: Web Services Standards; 20.1 Web Services Overview; 20.2 XML Schema and XML Namespaces; 20.3 SOAP 1.1; 20.4 WSDL 1.1; 20.5 UDDI 2.0; 20.6 From Standards to Implementation; Chapter 21: EJB 3.1 and Web Services; 21.1 Accessing Web Services with JAX-RPC; 21.2 Defining a Web Service with JAX-RPC; 21.3 Using JAX-WS; 21.4 Other Annotations and APIs; 21.5 JAXB; 21.6 Conclusion; Examples; FirstEJB Example; Description; Online Companion Information; Source Listing; Stateless Session EJB: Encryption Example; Description; Online Companion Information; Source Listing; Stateful Session EJB: FTP Client Example; Description; Online Companion Information; Source Listing; Singleton Session EJB: RSS Cache Example; Description; Online Companion Information; Source Listing; Message-Driven EJB: Status Update Listeners Example; Description; Online Companion Information; Source Listing; Java Persistence APIs: Employee Registry Example; Description; Online Companion Information; Source Listing; Security: Secured School Example; Description; Online Companion Information; Source Listing; Transactions: Blackjack Game Example; Description; Online Companion Information; Source Listing; Interceptors: TV Channel Service Example; Description; Online Companion Information; Source Listing; Timer Service: Credit Card Processor Example; Description; Online Companion Information; Source Listing; Colophon;