Jonathan Wetherbee - Beginning EJB 3: Java EE 7 edition

Beginning EJB 3

Java EE 7 Edition

Jonathan Wetherbee

Chirag Rathod

Raghu Kodali

Peter Zadrozny

Beginning EJB 3: Java EE7 Edition

Copyright 2013 by Jonathan Wetherbee, Chirag Rathod, Raghu Kodali, with Peter Zadrozny

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Contents at a Glance

Contents

Account and the user.properties File

About the Authors

Jon Wetherbee is a consulting engineer and tech lead for EJB development tools on Oracles JDeveloper IDE. He has over 20 years of experience in development at Oracle, working on a variety of O/R mapping tools and overseeing Oracles core EJB toolset since EJB 1.1. Most recently, Jon has been responsible for the design and development of EJB and JPA data binding solutions for ADF, Oracles application development framework.