In this section we'll look at the two main types of beans (Session Beans and Message Driven Beans), the methods to access and the packaging possibilities of beans.  

• Session Beans

  • Stateful Session Beans

  • Stateless Session Beans

  • Singleton Session Beans

• Message Driven Beans

• How can Enterprise JavaBeans can be accessed?

  • Remote call invocation

  • Local call invocation

  • Web Services

• Packaging