sharp shooter, and author
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posted 21 years ago
In a nutshell...
Entity beans - for representing persistent informationStateless session beans - for representing business processing/logicStateful session beans - for representing business logic where state is required to be maintained over a longer period of time (longer than a single method invocation)Message-driven beans - as an aynchronous interface (via JMS) to functionality contained within stateless session beans, or to provide a messaging interface for your app
HTH
Simon
[ November 06, 2002: Message edited by: Simon Brown ]