An invaluable tutorial on the dramatic changes to Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 Featuring a myriad of changes from previous versions, EJB 3.0 offers a very different programming and deployment model, with almost every aspect of development affected. Team of expert writers have taken their combined skills in architecture, development, consulting, and knowledge transfer to explain the various changes to EJB 3.0 as well as the reasons behind this change. You will learn the concepts and techniques for authoring distributed, enterprise components in Java from the ground up. basic through advanced subjects Covers, Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 is more than 50 percent new and revised. For that, you'll learn: * How to implement EJB 3.0 beans, with emphasis on session beans (stateful and stateless) and message-driven bean * Both the basic concepts and advanced (such as inheritance, relationships, etc.), Java Persistence API defined entities * How to develop and deploy EJB 3.0 Web services * How to secure EJB applications * How to integrate EJB applications with the outside world via the Java EE Connector technology * Tips and techniques for designing and using EJB for better performance * How clustering in large-scale EJB systems works * Best practices for EJB application design, development, and testing Companion Web site provides all source code, updates to the source code samples, and PDF versions of books. Wiley Technology Publishing on time.