What's Next?
If you don't have an application server, go ahead and download JBoss (you might want to get the pre-integrated version with Tomcat for the complete application server suite) and start reading the tutorials. In the next few articles I'll walk you through developing each type of Enterprise JavaBean, and then move into some more advanced EJB topics including the development of an enterprise Web application architecture.
The next article will discuss Container Managed Persistence (CMP) Entity Beans. Happy programming!