The workbench provides a specialized environment that you can use to develop and test enterprise beans that conform to the distributed component architecture defined in the Sun Microsystems Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) specification. This product supports the Enterprise JavaBeans 1.1, 2.0, and 2.1 specification levels.
The complete Enterprise JavaBeans specifications and descriptions of the technology are available from the java.sun.com Web site.
If you are not familiar with enterprise beans or related EJB technology, see EJB architecture for a brief description of key EJB concepts.
The EJB development environment includes the following tools:
You can also accomplish complementary enterprise bean development activities, such as writing and editing business logic, importing or exporting enterprise beans, and maintaining both your enterprise bean source code and generated code using the built in Java development tools, along with the team and version control capabilities of the workbench.
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