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Creating a Session Bean

What does a session bean do? Mark Wutka addresses this and more in this sample chapter from Special Edition Using Java 2, Enterprise Edition. Learn about a "Hello World" session bean, how to create a stateless session bean as well as a session bean that does some work, and how to troubleshoot.
This sample chapter is excerpted from Special Edition Using Java 2, Enterprise Edition, by Mark Wutka.
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What Does a Session Bean Do?

A session bean represents a conversation between a client application and an EJB container. Session beans typically implement business logic and often interact with a number of entity beans to perform an operation. A session bean isn't required to use entity beans, however. It communicates directly with the database if it needs to.

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