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David R Heffelfinger
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David R Heffelfinger

David Heffelfinger is the Chief Technology Officer of Ensode Technology, LLC, a software consulting firm based in the greater Washington DC area. He has been architecting, designing, and developing software professionally since 1995, and has been using Java as his primary programming language since 1996. He has worked on many large-scale projects for several clients including the US Department of Homeland Security, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and the US Department of Defense. He also has a Masters degree in Software Engineering from Southern Methodist University. David is Editor-in-Chief of Ensode.net (http://www.ensode.net), a website about Java, Linux, and other technology topics.
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Creating a session bean in NetBeans


Session beans can be created in three types of NetBeans projects: Enterprise Application, EJB Module, and Web Application. EJB Module projects can contain only EJBs, whereas Enterprise Application projects can contain EJBs along with their clients, which can be web applications or "standalone" Java applications. The ability to add EJBs to web applications was introduced in Java EE 6. Having this ability allows us to simplify packaging and deployment of web applications using EJBs. We can now package the web application code and the EJB code in a single Web Archive (WAR) file, whereas with previous versions of Java EE and J2EE, we had to create an Enterprise Archive (EAR) file.

When deploying enterprise applications to the GlassFish application server included with NetBeans, it is possible to deploy standalone clients as part of the application to the application server. These standalone clients are then available via Java Web Start (http://www.oracle.com...

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David R Heffelfinger

David Heffelfinger is the Chief Technology Officer of Ensode Technology, LLC, a software consulting firm based in the greater Washington DC area. He has been architecting, designing, and developing software professionally since 1995, and has been using Java as his primary programming language since 1996. He has worked on many large-scale projects for several clients including the US Department of Homeland Security, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and the US Department of Defense. He also has a Masters degree in Software Engineering from Southern Methodist University. David is Editor-in-Chief of Ensode.net (http://www.ensode.net), a website about Java, Linux, and other technology topics.
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