This book is intended for developers with at least some EJB development experience.

With that in mind, you will not find recipes describing the basic construction

rules of session and entity beans. We assume that you understand the concepts

of enterprise development and the basics of EJB programming. The format used

here specifically references problems and issues, avoiding the use of EJB keywords

(a look through the table of contents will verify this). For example, rather than

looking up “design patterns,” look up the actual problem you are trying to solve

(for example, “improving network performance”). To maximize the usefulness of

the book, the index includes both EJB keywords and problem-area keywords.