Oracle8i Enterprise JavaBeans and CORBA Developer's Guide

Online Sources

Prerequisite Reading

About Enterprise JavaBeans

Stateful and Stateless Session Beans

Deployment Descriptor

About CORBA

Common Features

IIOP

Tools

Caffeine

Example Code

Words About Acronyms

Defining Enterprise JavaBeans

EJB Development Roles

EJBs as Distributed Components

What is an Enterprise JavaBean?

Kinds of EJBs

Session Beans

Implementing an EJB

The EJB Architecture

Basic Concepts

The Home Interface

The Remote Interface

Accessing the Bean Methods

Parameter Passing

A First EJB Application

The Interfaces

The Bean Implementation

A Parameter Object

The Deployment Descriptor

The Client Code

Deploying an EJB

Write the Deployment Descriptor

Create a JAR File

Publish the Home Interface

Dropping an EJB

Handling Transactions

TransactionAttribute

Access Control

Transaction Isolation Level

Session Synchronization

Deployment Steps

Programming Techniques

Using SQLJ

Setting a Session Timeout

Saving an EJB Handle

EJB as Client

Programming Restrictions

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Terminology

About CORBA

CORBA Features

About the ORB

The Interface Description Language (IDL)

Using IDL

IDL Types

Exceptions

Getting by Without IDL

A First CORBA Application

Writing the IDL Code

Generate Stubs and Skeletons

Write the Server Object Implementation

Write the Client Code

Compiling the Java Source

Load the Classes into the Database

Publish the Object Name

Run the Example

Locating Objects

The Name Space

Looking Up an Object

Activating ORBs and Server Objects

Client Side

Server Side

About Object Activation

Using SQLJ

Running the SQLJ Translator

A Complete SQLJ Example

CORBA Callbacks

IDL

Client Code

Callback Server Implementation

Callback Client-Server Implementation

Printback Example

Using the CORBA Tie Mechanism

Debugging Techniques

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Books

URLs

Connection Basics

Services

About JNDI

The JNDI Context Interface

Connecting Using JNDI

Context Methods

The JNDI InitialContext Class

Services and Sessions

About the Session IIOP Protocol

Configuration for IIOP

Database Listeners and Dispatchers

URL Syntax

URL Components and Classes

The Service Context Class

The Session Context Class

Session Management

Starting a New Session

Starting a Named Session From a Client

Example: Activating Services and Sessions

Starting a New Session From a Server Object

Controlling Session Duration

Ending a Session

Authentication

Basic Client Authentication Techniques

The Login Protocol

Credentials

Access Rights to Database Objects

Published Objects

Other Server Objects

Reauthentication

Using the Secure Socket Layer

SSL Protocol Version Numbers

Using SSL on the Client Side

Determining SSL Certificate Information

Using SSL on the Server Side

Non-JNDI Clients

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Transaction Overview

Limitations

Transaction Demarcation

Transaction Context

Transaction Service Interfaces

TransactionService

Using The Java Transaction Service

CORBA Examples

Client-Side Demarcation

Server-Side JTS

Transactions in Multiple Sessions

Transaction Management for EJBs

Declarative Transactions

session Synchronization

JDBC

AuroraUserTransaction

Session Synchronization

EJB Transaction Examples

Client-Side Demarcated

Transaction Management in an EJB

JDBC

For More Information

Schema Object Tools

What and When to Load

Session Namespace Tools

publish

remove

sess_sh

Enterprise JavaBean Tools

deployejb

ejbdescriptor

VisiBroker^TM for Java Tools

Miscellaneous Tools

Basic Examples

Session Examples

Transaction Examples

RMI Examples

Applet Examples

JNDI Example

Basic Examples

Transaction Examples

Session Examples

Object References Have Session Lifetimes

The Database Server is the Implementation Mainline

Server Object Implementations are Deployed by Loading and Publishing

Implementation by Inheritance is Nearly Identical

Implementation by Delegation is Different

Clients Look Up Object Names with JNDI

No Interface or Implementation Repository

The Bank Example in Aurora and VBJ

The Bank IDL Module

Aurora Client

VBJ Client

Aurora Account Implementation

VBJ Account Implementation

Aurora Account Manager Implementation

VBJ Account Manager Implementation

VBJ Server Mainline

Contents

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Preface

1 Overview

2 Enterprise JavaBeans

3 Developing CORBA Applications

4 Connections and Security

5 Transaction Handling

6 Tools

A Example Code: CORBA

B Example Code: EJB

C Comparing the Oracle8i JServer and VisiBroker^TM VBJ ORBs

D Abbreviations and Acronyms

Index