Chapters 2 through 4, with the discussion proceeding from requirements to architecture and then to implementation:
We identify a set of business-tier requirements to guide the architecture selection process.
We identify and examine candidate architectures in light of the requirements to gauge their relative value for our application.
We identify and discuss techniques for constructing EJB components.
We examine selected business-tier components required for the bigrez.com application to highlight implementation details and best practices.
Ready? We’ll start with the requirements.