Types of Enterprise Beans (The Java EE 5 Tutorial)

The Java EE 5 Tutorial

Types of Enterprise Beans

Table 20–1 summarizes the two types of enterprise beans. The following sections discuss each type in more detail.

Table 20–1 Enterprise Bean Types


Enterprise Bean Type	Purpose
Session	Performs a task for a client; optionally may implement a web service
Message-Driven	Acts as a listener for a particular messaging type, such as the Java Message Service API

Note –

Entity beans have been replaced by Java Persistence API entities. For information about entities, see Chapter 24, Introduction to the Java Persistence API.