A comprehensive treatment of EJB 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.
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Planning, business scenarios, and IT architecture
A comprehensive treatment of EJB 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.
Programming model and decisions
A comprehensive overview of the 2.0 specification that is still relevant to users of EJB 2.1.
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
EJB programming practice: Fronting entity beans with a session-bean facade.
Programming practice for enterprise beans and other types of J2EE components.
Examples of the effect of optimistic concurrency on application behavior. Although the paper is based on a previous version of this product, 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
You can download the specification from this URL.
You can download the specification from this URL.
This Sun Microsystems article includes both source and binary compatibility issues.
Related concepts
Enterprise beans