annotations in ejb

Hi ,

i have learned ejb long back. now i brushup my knowledge in ejb with help book and some articles in net. but i really got confused with the things like annotations and interceptors(i thought after reading this might have work like filter concept in servlets).

is this annotations are replacements for deployment descriptors ?

and in the book(which i am referring) he deployed and running the application with glassfish ?

can u please tell me what is this annotations? and please give me information(urls) which helps me to get knowledge (fundamental knowledge i.e how the session beans ,entity beans,message driven beans life cycle methods are called )?

Thanks in advance

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[759 byte] By [pranathia] at [2007-11-26 19:03:29]