Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) technology is the server-side component architecture for Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE).

EJB 3 specification defines the new simplified EJB API targeted at ease of development. It also includes the new Java Persistence framework, JPA

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Difference between Spring’s Transaction management and EJB’s Container managed transaction

There is no standard way as per Java EE specs for  JNDI naming conventions, hence most of the application servers have their own way of JNDI naming.

On specifying a Datasource’s JNDI name as ‘myDatasource’, JBoss binds as ‘java:myDatasource’. So if one want to deploy the application on Jboss application servers then can use the simplest way is here. The steps for adding and using jndi Datasource to JBOSS 4.x is as under-

• Copy the jdbc driver to JBOSS_HOME/server/default/lib.

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JMS Interview questions have been added to Skill-guru repository . Take the test to check your knowledge.

One of the gurus has added SCBCD mock tests on skill-guru which also has conceptual questions on EJB . These questions also cover  EJB Interview Questions which are generally asked in interviews

I was a big fan of EJB’s CMT  (Container managed transaction) feature because it reduces the developer of complex task of managing transaction through code. One of the biggest drawback of this was that this feature could only be used with EJB’s and not ordinary Java classes.

Then came the Spring’s Transaction management feature which changed the way applications can manage transactions.  We will explore about Spring’s transactional capabilities and if they are better than EJB’s transaction

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