Assembling EJB 3.0 modules

An enterprise bean is a managed Java component that can be combined with other resources to create Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications.

This page assumes that we have created and unit tested an enterprise bean (EJB file) that you want to assemble in an enterprise application and deploy onto an appserver.

Assemble an EJB 3.0 module to contain enterprise beans and related code artifacts. Group Web components, client code, and resource adapter code in separate modules. After assembling an EJB module, we can install it as a standalone application or combine it with other modules into an enterprise application.

To learn about how to assemble an EJB 3.0 module with an assembly tool see the assembly tool information center.

Rational Application Developer can be extended with additional plug-ins to provide development support specifically for Java Persistence API (JPA). See the Eclipse open source project, Dali, for a plug-in that provides this extension. See the related links in this topic for the Dali JPA tools Web site.

Issues and problems using this plug-in need to resolved through the Eclipse open source community.

 

Next steps

After you finish assembling the EJB module, we are ready to deploy the module.

Define container transactions for EJB modules

 

Related concepts

References
Sequence grouping for container-managed persistence
EJB modules

 

Related tasks

Assembling applications
Set the run time for CMP sequence groups

 

Related

EJB references
EJB JNDI names for beans
Dali JPA Tools