Getting Started with Enterprise Beans
Getting Started with Enterprise Beans
Getting Started with Enterprise Beans
This chapter shows how to develop, deploy, and run a simple Java EE application named
converter
. The purpose of converter is to calculate currency conversions between Japanese
yen and Eurodollars. converter consists of an enterprise bean, which performs the
calculations, and two types of clients: an application client and a web client.
Here's an overview of the steps you'll follow in this chapter:
1. Create the enterprise bean: ConverterBean.
2. Create the application client: ConverterClient.
3. Create the web client in converter-war.
4. Deploy converter onto the server.
5. Run the application client.
6. Using a browser, run the web client.
Before proceeding, make sure that you've done the following:
Read
Become familiar with enterprise beans (see
Started the server (see
Creating the Enterprise Bean
The enterprise bean in our example is a stateless session bean called ConverterBean. The source
code for ConverterBean is in the
tut-install/javaeetutorial5/examples/ejb/converter/converter-ejb/src/java/
directory.
Creating ConverterBean requires these steps:
1. Coding the bean's business interface and class (the source code is provided)
2. Compiling the source code with the Ant tool
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