Introduction
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NTERPRISE beans are the J2EE components runing in the EJBcontainer,•Although transparent to the application developer, the EJB container provides system-level services such as transactions and security to itsenterprise beans.•These services enable you to quickly build and deploy enterprisebeans, which form the core of transactional J2EE applications.•
An Enterprise Bean
is a server-side component that encapsulates thebusiness logic of an application.•The business logic is the code that fulfills the purpose of theapplication.
–E.g inventory control application,
•, the enterprise beans might implement the business logic in methods calledcheckInventoryLevel and orderProduct.•By invoking these methods, remote clients can access the inventory servicesprovided by the application.