Chapter 3. Stateless Session Beans

Topics in This Chapter

• Introducing Stateless Session Beans

• The Structure of an Enterprise Bean

• The Value Object Pattern

• Compiling, Packaging, and Deploying an EJB

• A Stand-alone Java Application Client

• JSP Overview

• A Web Component Client

Now that we've explored the J2EE architecture, we're ready to look at our first EJB example. We'll be creating a stateless session bean, the simplest kind of enterprise bean.