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Starting With Enterprise Beans
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Starting With Enterprise Beans
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Here's an overview of the steps you'll follow:

1.  Create the enterprise bean: `ConverterBean`.
2.  Create the web client.
3.  Deploy `converter` onto the server.
4.  Using a browser, run the web client.

Before proceeding, make sure that you've done the following:

* Read link:overview.html#BNAAW[Chapter 1, "Overview"]
* Become familiar with enterprise beans (see
link:ejb-intro.html#GIJSZ[Chapter 35, "Enterprise Beans"])
* Started the server (see link:usingexamples002.html#BNADI[Starting and
Stopping GlassFish Server])

The following topics are addressed here:

* link:ejb-gettingstarted002.html#GIPSS[Creating the Enterprise Bean]
* link:ejb-gettingstarted003.html#GIPTI[Modifying the Java EE
Application]
