About this book

This document focuses on the development of enterprise beans written to the Sun Microsystems Enterprise JavaBeans(TM) specification in the WebSphere(TM) Application Server programming environment. It also discusses development of EJB clients that can access enterprise beans.


Who should read this book

This document is written for developers and system architects who want an introduction to programming enterprise beans and EJB clients in WebSphere Application Server. It is assumed that programmers are familiar with the concepts of object-oriented programming, distributed programming, and Web-based programming. Knowledge of the Sun Microsystems Java(TM) programming language is also assumed.


Document organization

This document is organized as follows:


Related information

For further information on the topics discussed in this manual, see the following documents:


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