Glossary

· Auxiliary window: Objecteering window that facilitates the entry and/or modification of Java-specific information.

· Bean class: Class containing the executable part of the EJB, implementation of the remote methods, and initializations automatically called when an instance is created by the home.

· Container: Part of an EJB generated by the application server, to provide the EJB with runtime services.

· Deployer tool: Software provided with the application server. This tool configures and generates the EJB's container. This is the last step in the creation of an EJB.

· EJB: Software component designed to provide remote services.

· Entity: EJB whose attributes are mapped to an RDBMS. This EJB represents a persistent object.

· External edition: Operation allowing notes to be entered using an editor other than the Objecteering text editor. The text entered between the pre-positioned markers are re-incorporated into the Objecteering repository when the editing is complete.

· Home interface: Interface defining the lifecycle of an EJB (creation, search, and so on).

· JDK (Java Development Kit): Library containing Java classes and tools, distributed by Sun for Java developers.

· Primary key class: Tool class to find an instance of an EJB from its database keys.

· Remote interface: Interface defining methods exported by the EJB, in order to access it.

· Security role: User group with the same rights regarding the calling of a function.

· Session Stateful: EJB capable of providing a service based on a conversation with the client.

· Session Stateless: EJB providing a simple service, which does not need to maintain a conversational state.

· Type and accessor generation project: Project that contains information allowing Objecteering types to be mapped into Java types, and declarations and accessors to be generated for attributes, navigable associations and parameters. The advantage of this technique lies in the fact that the types package is separate from Objecteering Java Developer itself.