Dependency Injection in Java EE 6 (Part 4) by Reza Rahman This series of articles introduces Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE (CDI), a key part of the Java EE 6 platform. Standardized via ...

In fact, managed beans are intended to become the fundamental building block for all Java EE components. Traditional JSF backing beans are now managed beans (likely annotated with @ManagedBean). All ...

The extended persistence context is said to be bound to the stateful session bean. Note that only stateful session beans can have a container-managed, extended entity manager.

Session bean In EJB 2.1 and earlier specifications, two interfaces—the home and the local, or remote, business interfaces—and the bean implementation class were required for each session bean.

It is possible to implement the same service a session bean provides, or implement the same domain object an entity bean represents, as an ordinary Java class. A client program can perform the same ...