EJB 3 Developer Guide Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction to the EJB 3 Architecture
• Introduction to the Java EE Architecture
• The EJB 3 Architecture
• EJB Container Services
• The JPA Persistence Engine
• EJB 3 Compared with Earlier Versions
• Getting Started
• Installing GlassFish
• Testing the Installation
• Accessing the Administrator Console
• Shutting Down GlassFish
• Downloading Example Source Code
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Session Beans
• Introduction
• Stateless Session Beans
• Annotations
• Creating a Session Bean Client
• Running the Example
• The Program Directory Structure
• The Ant Build Script
• The Application Client Container
• Building the Application
• Stateless Session Bean's LifeCycle
• Stateful Session Beans
• Stateful Session Bean's LifeCycle
• Local Interfaces
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Entities
• Introduction
• EJB 3 Entities
• Comparison with EJB 2.x Entity Beans
• Mapping an Entity to a Database Table
• Introducing the EntityManager
• Packaging and Deploying Entities
• The Program Directory Structure
• Building the Application
• Field-Based Annotations
• Generating Primary Keys
• Table Strategy
• Sequence Strategy
• Identity Strategy
• Auto Strategy
• Overriding Metadata Defaults
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Object/Relational Mapping
• O/R Mapping Default Behavior
• A Banking Example Application
• Customer Entity
• Account Entity
• Address Entity
• Referee Entity
• Testing the Application
• O/R Mapping Overriding Defaults
• Customer Entity
• Account Entity
• Address Entity
• BankServiceBean
• O/R Mapping Additional Annotations
• Referee Class
• BankServiceBean
• Composite Primary Keys
• O/R Inheritance Mapping
• SINGLE_TABLE Strategy
• JOINED Strategy
• Table per Concrete Class Strategy
• Summary

• Chapter 5: The Java Persistence Query Language
• Introduction
• Simple Queries
• Projection
• Conditional Expressions
• Aggregate Functions
• GROUP BY
• HAVING
• Queries with Relationships
• Joins
• Inner Joins
• Outer Joins
• Fetch Joins
• Collection Comparison Expressions
• Constructor Expressions
• SubQueries
• Functions
• CONCAT
• SUBSTRING
• TRIM
• LOWER and UPPER
• LENGTH
• LOCATE
• ABS
• SQRT
• MOD
• SIZE
• Queries with Parameters
• Positional Parameters
• Named Parameters
• Named Queries
• Handling Date and Time
• @Temporal annotation
• Queries with Date Parameters
• Datetime Functions
• Bulk Update and Delete
• Native SQL
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Entity Manager
• Application-managed Entity Manager
• Entity Manager Merge
• Entity Manager Methods
• remove()
• contains()
• flush()
• setFlushMode()
• refresh()
• clear()
• Cascade Operations
• persist
• remove
• merge
• refresh
• all
• Extended Persistence Context
• Entity LifeCycle Callback Methods
• Entity Listeners
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Transactions
• Introduction
• Container-Managed Transaction Demarcation
• SUPPORTS
• NOT_SUPPORTED
• REQUIRED
• REQUIRES_NEW
• MANDATORY
• Never
• Examples of Transaction Attributes
• REQUIRED Example
• REQUIRES_NEW Example
• NOT_SUPPORTED Example
• SUPPORTS Example
• MANDATORY Example
• NEVER Example
• Controlling Container Managed Transactions
• SessionSynchronization Interface
• Doomed Transactions
• Concurrency and Database Locking
• Isolation Levels
• Lost Update Problem
• Versioning
• Read and Write Locking
• UserTransaction Interface
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Messaging
• Introduction
• Java Message Service (JMS) API
• Queue Producer and Consumer Examples
• Synchronous Queue Consumer Example
• Running the Queue Producer and Synchronous Queue Consumer Examples
• An Asynchronous Queue Consumer Example
• Running the Asynchronous Queue Consumer Example
• Topic Producer and Consumer Examples
• Synchronous Topic Consumer Example
• Running the Topic Producer and Synchronous Topic Consumer Examples
• An Asynchronous Topic Consumer Example
• Running the Asynchronous Topic Consumer Example
• Motivation for Message-Driven Beans
• A Simple Message-Driven Bean Example
• A Session Bean Queue Producer
• A Message-Driven Bean Queue Consumer
• MDB Activation Configuration Properties
• acknowledgeMode
• subscriptionDurability
• messageSelector
• MessageDrivenContext
• MDB LifeCycle
• MDB Example Revisited
• Sending Message Confirmation to a Client
• MDBs and Transactions
• Summary

• Chapter 9: EJB Timer Service
• Introduction
• Timer Service Examples
• A Single Event Example
• An Interval Event Example
• A Timer Interface Example
• Timers and Transactions
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Interceptors
• Interceptor Methods
• Interceptor Classes
• Default Interceptors
• Interceptor Communication
• Summary

• Chapter 11: Implementing EJB 3 Web Services
• Overview of Web Service Concepts
• The SOAP Protocol
• The WSDL Standard
• The UDDI Standard
• SOA and Web Services
• Creating a Java Application Web Service
• Creating an Endpoint Implementation Interface
• The WSDL Document
• The <portType> Element
• The <binding> Element
• The <service> Element
• The <message> and <types> Elements
• The GlassFish WSGEN Tool
• Deploying a Java Application as a Web Service
• The GlassFish Admin Console Test Harness
• Creating a Java Web Service Client
• Overriding JAX-WS Annotation Defaults
• Deploying an EJB Session Bean as a Web Service
• Packaging an EJB Web Service
• Creating an EJB Web Service Client
• Summary

• Chapter 12: EJB 3 Security
• Java EE Container Security
• Authentication
• GlassFish Authentication
• Mapping Roles to Groups
• Authenticating an EJB Application Client
• EJB Authorization
• Declarative Authorization
• Denying Authorization
• EJB Security Propagation
• Programmatic Authorization
• Java EE Web Container Security
• Web-Tier Authorization
• Transport Layer Security
• Web-Tier Authentication
• Example of Web-Tier Authentication and Authorization
• Summary

• Appendix A: Annotations and Their Corresponding Packages

• Index