Assembling EJB modules
An enterprise bean is a Java component that can be combined with other resources to create Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications. This page describes assembling EJB modules based on the EJB specifications.
This page assumes that we have created and unit tested an enterprise bean file that you want to assemble in an enterprise application and deploy onto an appserver.
Assemble an EJB 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.
Use an assembly tool to assemble an EJB module in any of the following ways:
- Import an existing EJB module (EJB JAR file).
- Create a new EJB module.
- Copy code artifacts, such as entity beans, from one EJB module into a new EJB module.
For information on assembling EJB modules, refer to the online documentation or the information center for the assembly tool. The Rational Application Developer product provides supported assembly tools.
Next steps
After you finish assembling the EJB module, we are ready to deploy the module.
Assembling EJB 2.x modules
Assembling EJB 3.0 modules
Define container transactions for EJB modules
References
EJB references
EJB JNDI names for beans
Bind EJB business
Sequence grouping for container-managed persistence
Set the run time for CMP sequence groups
Related concepts
EJB modules
Related tasks
Assembling applications