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Contacting Borland developer support. . . . . 1-4 Online resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 World Wide Web. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 Borland newsgroups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5 Usenet newsgroups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5 Reporting bugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
Why are J2EE applications desirable?. . . . . . 2-1
Benefits of the multi-tier model. . . . . . . . 2-3
How JBuilder can help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5
Client tier technologies. . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5
Middle-tier technologies. . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
Other J2EE technologies. . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7
Preparing to deploy J2EE applications. . . . 2-8
Learning about J2EE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8
application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Application roles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Infrastructure roles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
Deployment and operation roles. . . . . . . 3-4
EJB architecture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
The EJB server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
The EJB container. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
How an enterprise bean works. . . . . . . . 3-6
Types of enterprise beans. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
Session beans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
Entity beans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
Message-driven beans. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
Remote and local access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8
Developing enterprise beans. . . . . . . . . . . 3-8
project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
Making the ORB available to JBuilder. . . . . . 4-4
Selecting an application server. . . . . . . . . . 4-4
Setting up JDBC drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
Creating the .library and .config files. . . . . 4-6
Adding the JDBC driver to projects. . . . . . 4-7
existing deployment descriptors. . . . . 5-4
Displaying the EJB Designer. . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5
Creating session beans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7
Viewing a bean\u2019s source code. . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
Modifying the bean. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9
Editing bean attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9
Adding a new field. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9
Removing a field. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10
Adding a new method. . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10
Removing a method. . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11
Creating message-driven beans. . . . . . . . . 5-12
Creating entity beans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13
imported data source. . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13 Importing a data source. . . . . . . . . . 5-13 Modifying the imported data
Enterprise Javabeans Developer's Guide
