In this chapter, we went through the new EJB 3.1 features by following a simple lab example that we enriched progressively. The example showed how the Maven framework can be used from within the Eclipse environment to assist you in assembling the project with all the necessary dependencies.

Until now, we have just coded a remote standalone client for our application. In the next chapter, we will see how to add a web frontend to our example using the context and dependency injections, to bridge the gap between the web tier and the enterprise tier.