> The Enterprise JavaBeans architecture defines six distinct roles in the application development and deployment life cycle. Each EJB Role may be pe

> The Enterprise JavaBeans architecture defines six distinct roles in the application development and deployment life cycle. Each EJB Role may be performed by a different party. The EJB architecture specifies the contracts that ensure that the product of each EJB Role is compatible with the product of the other EJB architecture Roles. The EJB specification focuses on those contracts that are required to support the development and deployment of ISV-written enterprise Beans. -- Enterprise JavaBeans™ Specification, v1.1, 12/17/1999 [1] [1] http://index-of.es/Java/Enterprise%20JavaBeans%20Specification-1.1.pdf http://index-of.es/Java/Enterprise%20JavaBeans%20Specificati...