EJB 3 promises to simplify development of business, leaving the heavyweight EJB 2.x model in support of lightweight POJO framework. This book highlights what EJB 3 is offered without ignoring the contribution and strength of seminal technologies like Spring, Hibernate or TopLink. What's Inside * Building Business Logic with Session Beans and Message Driven POJO Beans * EJB 3 Dependency Injection and interceptors * Domain Modeling and Object-Relational Mapping with EJB 3 Java Persistence API * Effective manipulate and retrieve entities, including using Java Persistence Query Language * Using EJB 3 from other levels (such as web or application client tier) and frameworks like Spring * Best practices, performance tuning, and design patterns * Migrating from EJB 2.x and other POJO frameworks