Enterprise beans: Resources for learning

Use the following links to find relevant supplemental information about enterprise beans. The information resides on IBM and non-IBM Internet sites, whose sponsors control the technical accuracy of the information.

These links are provided for convenience. Often, the information is not specific to WAS but is useful all or in part for understanding the product. When possible, links are provided to technical papers and Redbooks that supplement the broad coverage of the release documentation with in-depth examinations of particular product areas.

View links to additional information about...

• Planning, business scenarios, and IT architecture

• Programming model and decisions

• Programming instructions and examples

• Programming specifications

 

Planning, business scenarios, and IT architecture

• Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans
  http://www.theserverside.com/books/masteringEJB/index.jsp

  A comprehensive treatment of EJBs programming in nonprintable form (PDF). One must be registered to download the PDF, but registration is free. Information about purchasing a hardcopy is available on the Web site.

• Enterprise JavaBeans by Richard Monson-Haefel (O'Reilly and Associates, Inc.: Third Edition, 2001)

 

Programming model and decisions

• Read all about EJB 2.0
  http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jw-ejb20/

  A comprehensive overview of the specification.

• The J2EE Tutorial
  http://java.sun.com/j2ee/tutorial/1_3-fcs/index.html

  This set of articles by Sun Microsystems covers several EJB-related topics, including the basic programming models, persistence, and EJB Query Language.

 

Programming instructions and examples

• Rules and Patterns for Session Facades
  http://www7b.boulder.ibm.com/wsdd/library/techarticles/0106_brown/sessionfacades.html

  EJB programming practice: Fronting entity beans with a session-bean facade.

• WAS Development Best Practices for Performance and Scalability
  http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/ws_bestpractices.pdf

  Programming practice for enterprise beans and other types of J2EE components.

• Optimistic Locking in IBM WAS 4.0.2
  http://www7b.boulder.ibm.com/wsdd/

  Examples of the effect of optimistic concurrency on application behavior. Although the paper is based on a previous version of WAS, the data access issues discussed in it are current.

  This paper does not seem to be available directly by URL. To view this paper, visit the specified URL and search on "optimistic locking"

 

Programming specifications

• What's new in the Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0 Specification?
  http://java.sun.com/products/ejb/2.0.html

  You can also download the specification itself from this URL.

• JavaTM 2 Platform: Compatibility with Previous Releases
  http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/compatibility.html

  This Sun Microsystems article includes both source and binary compatibility issues.

 

See Also

Enterprise beans
Using enterprise beans in applications

 

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