EJB

General EJB features

• File and live templates for entity, session, message and other beans.
• Auto-generating code for CMP beans, fields and relationships.
• Dedicated context editors for all supported beans.
• Automatic building of standard EJB deployment packages.
• Automatic generation of appropriate EJB XML descriptors.
• Complete EJB-aware coding assistance:
  • Code completion for both EJB code and descriptor files.
  • EJB error highlighting.
  • EJB-aware intention actions and quick fixes.
  • Powerful EJB-aware refactorings.

EJB 3.0-specific features

• Annotation mechanism for creating EJB, and Interceptors.
• Automatic code generation, completion and dedicated binding editor.
• Full EJB persistence support, powered with generating of persistence mapping from entity beans, Hibernate or JDBC source.
• Visual Persistence diagram builder.
• Migration of your existing EJB projects (versions 1.x and 2.x) to EJB 3.0 with:
  • Converting EJB environment access.
  • Rebuilding EJB deployment descriptors.
  • Transforming EJB interfaces.
  • Turning Entity Beans into Container Managed Persistence.

IntelliJ IDEA unifies all EJB-related application parts in the dedicated Facet, which includes EJB descriptors, build, and library settings.