Introduction.

Part One: Overview.

Chapter 1: Overview.

Chapter 2: EJB Fundamentals.

Chapter 3: Writing Your First Bean.

Part Two: The Triad of Beans.

Chapter 4: Introduction to Session Beans.

Chapter 5: Writing Session Bean Web Services.

Chapter 6: Introduction to Entity Beans.

Chapter 7: Writing Bean-Managed Persistent Entity Beans.

Chapter 8: Writing Container-Managed Persistent Entity Beans.

Chapter 9: Introduction to Message-Driven Beans.

Chapter 10: Adding Functionality to Your Beans.

Part Three: Advanced Enterprise JavaBeans Concepts.

Chapter 11: EJB Best Practices.

Chapter 12: Transactions.

Chapter 13: Security.

Chapter 14: EJB Timers.

Chapter 15: BMP and CMP Relationships.

Chapter 16: Persistence Best Practices.

Chapter 17: EJB Integration.

Chapter 18: EJB Performance Optimizations.

Chapter 19: Clustering.

Chapter 20: Starting Your EJB Project on the Right Foot.

Chapter 21: Choosing an EJB Server.

Chapter 22: EJB-J2EE Integration: Building a Complete Application.

Appendix A: RMI-IIOP and JNDI Tutorial.

Appendix B: CORBA Interoperability.

Appendix C: Deployment Descriptor Reference.

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

Appendix E: EJB Quick Reference Guide.

Index.