This document provides an introduction and overview of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) including the different types of beans, how to build a sample bean, and how to deploy and call methods on the bean. It discusses entity beans, message driven beans, and session beans. It provides code examples for a sample stateless session bean class, home and remote interfaces, deployment descriptor, and a JSP client to call methods on the bean.

1. EJB
Creating first Session
Bean
Session 1

2. Introduction to EJB
1. EJB provides component base Development
2. Provide write once deploy anywhere
3. Allows customization via Deployment Descriptor (no Java code
modification)
4. Development focuses on Business Logic
5. EJB Server provides
1. Transaction Mgmt
2. Security
3. Concurrency
4. Resource Mgmt
5. Messaging
6. Depoly time Customization

3. Types of Bean
1. Entity Bean
• Represent a thing in persistence store e.g. row on database or
Serialized object in file.
2. Message Driven Bean
• Can listen a message from JMS Messaging service
3. Session Bean
• Represent a process or can contain a business logic
• Stateful Session Bean
• Can remember conversational state between method call
• Stateless Session Bean
• Can’t remember conversational state between method call

4. Rules for Building a Sample Bean
To create sample bean we need to follow below steps
• Code the bean class with all business method
• Code to interfaces for bean (home & component)
• Create XML Deployment Descriptor, must be
name it as ejb-jar.xml
• Deploy bean in application server

5. Bean Class HelloBean.java
package com;
import javax.ejb.*;
public class HelloBean implements SessionBean{
public void ejbActivate(){}
public void ejbPassivate(){}
public void ejbRemove(){}
public void setSessionContext(SessionContext ctx){}
public String helloWorld(){
return "Hello there!!!";
}
public void ejbCreate() {}
}

6. Little (More) about Bean Class HelloBean.java
If you are completely new to EJB, then you definitely says
what the hec is that… here is your answers
1. Your bean class (which contains the actual definition of mth
or says business logic) must implements SessionBean
interface according to spec
2. According to java rule you have to implements all
unimplemented mth from interface
3. The helloWorld() is your actual business mth, which will be
called by client
4. The ejbCreate() not come from SessionBean interface, but
we need to give the empty definition of it (???WTF??? this
is what is going is your mind right now, b relax the answer is
coming in next few slides.

7. Component Interface Hello.java
package com;
import javax.ejb.*;
import java.rmi.*;
public interface Hello extends EJBObject{
public String helloWorld() throws RemoteException;
}

8. Little (More) about Component Interface
1. You definitely find some similarities between Component
Interface & Bean class, if you are really thinking what I m
thinking, then you are right.
2. The component interface contains declarations of all
business mth which is to be defined by Bean class.
3. But according to java rules to implement the mth from
interface, the class must have the these magical statements
“implements Interface_Name”, which is in our case is
missing. Then how these two are related. Forget this for
now, I will explain this later.
4. Component interface must extends EJBObject interface
5. Its all mth must throws RemoteException
6. They can also thorws custom application (Checked)
Exception.
7. Its return type must be primitives/Serializable
Objs/Arrays/Collection of primitives or Serializable
Objs/Remote obj (These are called as RMI-IIOP
Complients).

9. Home Interface HelloHome.java
package com;
import javax.ejb.*;
import java.rmi.*;
public interface HelloHome extends EJBHome{
public Hello create() throws
CreateException,RemoteException;
}

10. Little (More) about Component Interface
• Home interface must extends EJBHome interface
• Must declare the create() (here is hint for your Bean class
ejbCreate() mth)
• Return type of create() must be component interface type
• Mth must throws CreateException & RemoteException.
• They can also thorws custom application (Checked)
Exception.

11. Combining the all stuff together
• Now what we have here : Component, Home & bean. we know
all these stuff work together, but question is how? Here is
ur ans.
• We need to tell the container that all these things are work
together by putting their entries in ejb-jar.xml
• WTH is ejb-jar.xml? : It is Deployment Descriptor (DD) like
web.xml in servlets.
• It tells the container that which is home, component & bean
to run the business logic.
• It also states what the Bean type i.e. Session(stateless,
stateful), Entity or Message-Driven (You can understand all
this from syntax).
• We are creating only sample stateless session bean, so only
session tags are avail. For Entity & Message-Driver will see
later.

12. Sample ejb-jar.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ejb-jar>
<display-name>Hello EJB App</display-name>
<enterprise-beans>
<session>
<display-name>Hello</display-name>
<ejb-name>Hello</ejb-name>
<home>com.HelloHome</home>
<remote>com.Hello</remote>
<ejb-class>com.HelloBean</ejb-class>
<session-type>Stateless</session-type>
<transaction-type>Container</transaction-type>
</session>
</enterprise-beans>
</ejb-jar>

13. Deploying & Calling the Bean mth
• Now you have to create the jar of all compiled class with
below structure.
ejbApp.jar
com
Hello.class
HelloHome.class
HelloBean.class
META-INF
ejb-jar.xmlejb-jar.xml
glassfish-ejb-jar.xml

14. Deploying & Calling the Bean mth
• You noticed there is one more xml file glassfih-ejb-jar.xml,
now lets see what is it.
• As per my understanding, every server has its own ejb-
jar.xml file for deployment of ejb application. For e.g. if you
are deploying in weblogic server then you have additional
weblogic-ejb-jar.xml
• As I m using glassfish server for app deployment so I have
glassfish-ejb-jar.xml
• We will see the deployments of ejb & web application (part)
in later.
• Now I am writing the plane jsp to call the Bean mth.
• You need to deploy this jsp(war) file in glassfish & run the
jsp.

15. Client HelloClient.jsp
<%@ page language="java" import="java.util.*" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@page import="javax.naming.InitialContext"%>
<%@page import="javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject"%>
<%@page import="com.HelloHome"%>
<%@page import="com.Hello"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<body>
<%
try{
InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();
Object obj = ic.lookup("Hello");
HelloHome home =
(HelloHome)PortableRemoteObject.narrow(obj,HelloHome.class);
Hello hello = home.create();
String res = hello.helloWorld();
System.out.println(res);
out.println(res);
}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
%>
</body>
</html>

16. Thank you
• I am not expert in EJB, but if you have any doubts in
tutorial please feel free to contact me on
ashishkirpan@gmail.com
• Sorry for spelling & grammar mistakes :)
Have a fun with EJB