Developers and programmers have been anxiously awaiting the Moscone release of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) and the many EJB tools expected to ship through the end of this year. With the Moscone release of EJB, corporate programmers can finally build highly robust and stable applications in Java. Written by an EJB insider, this book clearly shows how to use the leading EJB tools and servers in corporate programming. Corporate developers will find out how to link the Web to their large databases with EJB, JDBC 2.0, Oracle8i, and XML. The book also contains a complete comparison and benchmarking study of the leading EJB Application Servers. Also included is a full-blown blank application that explains how to build a 3-tier application with EJB.