Conclusion
It has been a long and exhausting chapter, but you were greatly rewarded for your efforts; you coded, deployed, and ran a complete working Entity Bean and an actually useful client program.
The myriad details of deployment descriptors were glossed over in this chapter for two reasons. First, deployment tools, such as deploytool, are starting to make it unnecessary to delve too deeply into the details of deployment descriptors. Second, expecting anybody to absorb the details of EJB coding and EJB deployment descriptors in one sitting is asking too much; it is better to dedicate yourself to one paradigm shift per day.