Overview

1. Distributed Multi Tiered Applications (html)
2. J2EE Containers (html)
3. Packaging Applications (html)
4. Development Roles (html)

Enterprise Beans

1. What is an Enterprise Bean (html)
2. What is a Session Bean (html)
3. What is an Entity Bean (html)
4. What is a Message Driven Bean (html)
5. Defining Client Access With Interfaces (html)
6. The Contents of an Enterprise Bean (html)
7. Naming Conventions for Enterprise Beans (html)

The Life-Cycles of Enterprise Beans

1. The Life-cycle of a stateful session bean (html)
2. The Life-cycle of a stateless session bean (html)
3. The Life-cycle of a entity bean (html)
4. The Life-cycle of a message driven bean (html)

Transactions (html)

1. What is a Transaction (html)
2. Container Managed Transactions (html)
3. Bean Managed Transactions (html)
4. Summary of Transaction Options for Enterprise Beans (html)
5. Isolation Levels (html)
6. Updating Multiple Databases (html)

Resource Connections (html)

1. JNDI Naming (html)
2. DataSource Objects and Connection Pools (html)
3. Database Connections (html)
4. Mail Session Connections (html)
5. URL Connections (html)

Security (html)

1. Overview (html)
2. Realms, Users, Groups and Roles (html)
3. EJB-Tier Security (html)
4. Propagating Security Identity (html)

Classroom Practice

1. Using Your Favourite IDE for EJB Development
2. Using Your Favourite Application Server for EJB Deployment
3. Examples