Summary

Building on the bestselling first edition, EJB 3 in Action, Second Edition tackles EJB 3.2 head-on, through numerous code samples, real-life scenarios, and illustrations. This book is a fast-paced tutorial for Java EE 6 business component development using EJB 3.2, JPA 2, and CDI. Besides covering the basics of EJB 3.2, this book includes in-depth EJB 3.2 internal implementation details, best practices, design patterns, and performance tuning tips.

About the Book

The EJB 3 framework provides a standard way to capture business logic in manageable server-side modules, making it easier to write, maintain, and extend Java EE applications. EJB 3.2 provides more enhancements and intelligent defaults and integrates more fully with other Java technologies, such as CDI, to make development even easier.

EJB 3 in Action, Second Edition is a fast-paced tutorial for Java EE business component developers using EJB 3.2, JPA, and CDI. It tackles EJB head-on through numerous code samples, real-life scenarios, and illustrations. Beyond the basics, this book includes internal implementation details, best practices, design patterns, performance tuning tips, and various means of access including Web Services, REST Services, and WebSockets.

Readers need to know Java. No prior experience with EJB or Java EE is assumed.

What's Inside

• Fully revised for EJB 3.2
• POJO persistence with JPA 2.1
• Dependency injection and bean management with CDI 1.1
• Interactive application with WebSocket 1.0

Table of Contents

PART 1 OVERVIEW OF THE EJB LANDSCAPE

1 ■ What’s what in EJB 3

2 ■ A first taste of EJB

PART 2 WORKING WITH EJB COMPONENTS

3 ■ Building business logic with session beans

4 ■ Messaging and developing MDBs

5 ■ EJB runtime context, dependency injection, and crosscutting logic

6 ■ Transactions and security

7 ■ Scheduling and timers

8 ■ Exposing EJBs as web services

PART 3 USING EJB WITH JPA AND CDI

9 ■ JPA entities

10 ■ Managing entities

11 ■ JPQL

12 ■ Using CDI with EJB 3

PART 4 PUTTING EJB INTO ACTION

13 ■ Packaging EJB 3 applications

14 ■ Using WebSockets with EJB 3

15 ■ Testing and EJB

About the Authors

Debu Panda is a Lead Product Manager of the Oracle Application Server development team, where he drives development of the Java EE container. He has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry and has published numerous articles on enterprise Java technologies in several magazines and has presented at many conferences. His J2EE-focused weblog can be found at debupanda.com.

Reza Rahman is a Senior Software Engineer and Technology Outreach Advocate. A frequent speaker, Reza is a member of the Java EE 6 and EJB 3.1 expert groups.

Ryan Cuprak is a technology analyst and president of the Connecticut Java Users Group. He is a Sun Certified NetBeans IDE Specialist.

Michael Remijan is a Java Technology Team Lead, Developer, and college Instructor. He has numerous Sun Certifications, and actively writes articles on a variety of Java related technologies.