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1.Why EJB ?
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 The benefit to application developers is that they can focus onwriting the business logic without worrying much aboutimplementing the surrounding framework.
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 The main difference between JavaBeans and EJB is that when youuse JavaBeans to create a server application, you have to buildthe entire server framework. With EJB the framework is providedfor you; you simply have to conform to its APIs.
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It follows the Java’s “Write once and run anywhere” concept. It isplatform independent.
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It makes distributed programming (RMI/CORBA) easier.
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All the transaction processing is taken care by the EJB server.
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It follows the multithreaded architecture.
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What is the EJB architecture like ?
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It is logically a three-tier architecture consisting of mainly TheClient The EJB server and The Databases.
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 The EJB bean resides in the container , which in turn reside onthe EJB server.
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A program on the client side makes remote calls to the EJBs.Theclient can never communicate directly with the EJB beans.
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It talks to the EJB bean through the Home and Remote interfacesprovided by the container.3.What is the role of the container ?
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An container is an enviroment in which the EJBs execute.
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It can contain one or more EJB classes.
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 The container is resposible for generating the implementations of the Home and Remote interfaces.
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Clients can never connect to the EJB bean itself , rather theyconnect to the representation of the EJB(EJBObject) provided bythe container , which then forwards the clients request to theEJB.
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 The container provides the following facilities :
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Swapping to and from secondary storage(for session beans).
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Persistence management (for entity beans).
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Creation and lookup of the Home object through the JNDI(Java Naming & Directory Interfaces) accessible namespace.
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Supports management of multiple Instances.
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Implementation of certain basic security services.
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Support for transactions management.4.What does the Home interface do ?
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 The EJBHome object must implement the home interface.
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 This interface contains the methods used by the clients to createand remove the instances of the EJB.
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 The home interface is the client’s initial point of contact withyour EJB components.
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For the client to access the EJB , an instance of the EJB is createdfrom one or more create() methods of the Home interface.
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 The ejbCreate() methods defined in the EJB must also bedeclared with matching signatures in the Home interface.
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Returns a reference to a EJB by creating or finding it.5.What does the Remote interface do ?
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 The EJBObject class must implement the remote interface.
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Once the client has used the home interface to gain access toEJB ,it uses this interface to invoke the business methods definedin the EJB class.
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Clients can never get a reference to the EJBs class , only theEJBObject class.
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 The EJB container uses the remote interface for your bean togenerate both the client-side stub and server-side proxy objectthat passes client calls to your EJB object.6.What is the EJB class?
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EJBHome and EJBObject interfaces and classes control access tothe EJB class.
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 The EJB is the class that the developer writes to provideapplication functionality or business logic.
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 The methods in this bean are never invoked directly from theclient.The client calls the EJBs methods indirectly through theEJBObject which acts as a proxy.
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 The developer has the option of creating either a Session bean orEntity bean.7.What are Session beans ?
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A session bean is an EJB bean where each instance of a sessionbean is created through its home interface and is private to theclient.
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 The life time of a session bean is that of its client.
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 This allows it to maintain the clients state. E.g. Shopping cart .
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Represents a transient conversation with a client.
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It is relatively short lived. Only for the duration of singleclient/server session.
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If the server or client crashes , the session bean is gone.
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Might use an entity bean to make a call , in that case the sessionbean is the client.
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 The container may optionally implement a swapping mechanismto move the instances of the session beans from the memory tosecondary storage.
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 This can be done by serialization of the bean.
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 The method ejbPassivate()-(passivation means the process of swapping out the bean) and ejbActivate()-(activation means theprocess of restoring the bean) allow the container to tell thebean that it is about to be swapped out and that it has justswapped in.
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If the bean is currently in a transaction , it will not bepassivated(swapped out).8.What are two types of session beans ?
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A session beans deployment descriptor must declare the beanas either a stateless or stateful one.
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 The two types of session beans are Stateless and Statefulsession beans.
Stateless session bean:-
It is one that does not keep track of the state information between method calls.
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Stateless session beans are not swapped.
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Since they do not maintain state there is nothing to preserve.
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It can also be shared by multiple incoming clients.
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Essestially a bean with no instance variables.
Stateful session bean :-
It is one that keeps track of the stateinformation between method calls or a conversation.
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Essentially a bean with instance variables.
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Maintains a user session.
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Since there is conversation between methods the state has tobe preserved.9.What is an Entity bean ?
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 They are used to represent persistent data.
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An entity bean can be defined to represent a row in a databasetable , where each instance of the bean represents a specificrow.
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It is long lived. Exists across client session.
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Unlike session beans creating an entity bean means that a newrow is created in the database. So in addition to the create() ,theHome interface will also have finder methodslike( findByPrimaryKey() ).
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 The finder method will return a unique identifier , or a primarykey to the container.
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