Dedication.

Acknowledgments.

Preface.

About the Author.

About the Coauthors.

Introduction to the Book.

PART ONE: OVERVIEW.

Chapter 1. Introduction.

Chapter 2. EJB Fundamentals.

Chapter 3. Writing Your First Bean.

PART TWO: THE TRIAD OF BEANS.

Chapter 4. Introduction to Session Beans.

Chapter 5. Introduction to Entity Beans.

Chapter 6. Writing Bean-Managed Persistent Entity Beans.

Chapter 7. Writing Container-Managed Persistent Entity Beans.

Chapter 8. Introduction to Message-Driven Beans.

Chapter 9. Adding Functionality to Your Beans.

PART THREE: ADVANCED EJB CONCEPTS.

Chapter 10. Transactions.

chapter 11. BMP and CMP Relationships.

Chapter 12. Persistence Best Practices.

Chapter 13. EJB Best Practices and Performance Optimizations.

Chapter 14. Large-Scale System Design.

Chapter 15. Starting Your EJB Project on the Right Foot.

Chapter 16 Choosing an EJB Server.

Chapter 17. EJB-J2EE Integration: Building a Complete Application.

PART FOUR: APPENDIXES.

Appendix A: RMI-IIOP and JNDI Tutorial.

Appendix B: CORBA Interoperability.

Appendix C: Deployment Descriptor Reference.

Appendix D: The EJB Query Language (EJB-QL) Reference.

Appendix E: API and Diagram Reference.

Index.