Create EJB components using UML modeling tools

This tutorial describes how to create container-managed persistence (CMP) entity beans from a Unified Modeling Language (UML) class diagram. It examines the Enterprise JavaBeansTM (EJB) specification and the JavaTM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) specification. It also describes how to map relational database tables from enterprise beans.

This tutorial covers the following concepts:

  • Basic concepts of EJB servers and containers
  • The three main types of enterprise beans
  • The structure of EJB components and enterprise applications
  • The structure of EJB and related projects
  • Creating new UML class diagrams
  • Creating container-managed entity beans from class diagrams
  • Visually editing EJB components
  • How UML class diagrams interact with the underlying code
  • Decorations used in UML class diagrams
  • Creating relational database maps from enterprise beans

   2 hours

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