EJB® (Enterprise JavaBean®) is a component software architecture from Sun Microsystems for building Java applications that run on a server. EJBs use a container layer that provides common functions, such as security and transaction support, and delivers a consistent interface to all your applications regardless of the type of server.

Process Commander can accept a request from another system using an EJB bean through the Service EJB rule. Process Commander can also initiate a request to an EJB bean through the Connect EJB rule.

Java objects that are not EJBs are sometimes called Plain Old Java Objects, or POJOs.

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