Glossary

• bean class  

  The bean class implements the methods defined in an enterprise bean’s business methods, which are defined in the remote interface.



• bean client  

  An application or enterprise bean that makes use of an enterprise bean.



• deployment descriptor  

  XML file that describes the configuration of a Web application. It’s located in the WEB-INF directory of the application’s WAR file and named web.xml.



• EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans)  

  Specification that provides an infrastructure through which data-based components can be developed and deployed in a variety of platforms.



• J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition)  

  Specification that defines a platform for the development and deployment of Web applications. It describes an environment under which enterprise beans, servlets, and JSP pages can share resources and work together.



• home interface  

  The home interface defines an enterprise bean’s life-cycle methods, used to create, remove, and find beans.



• ORB (Object Request Broker)  

  Facility through which an application can locate and use distributed objects.



• remote interface  

  The remote interface defines an enterprise bean’s business methods, which are used by bean clients to interact with the bean.



• Web application  

  File structure that contains servlets, JSP pages, HTML documents and other resources. This structure can be deployed on any servlet-enabled HTTP server.