Java Beans Question:

Software that provides services to an EJB container. For example, an EJB container typically relies on a transaction manager that is part of the EJBserver to perform the two-phase commit across all the participating resource managers. The J2EE architecture assumes that an EJB container is hosted by an EJBserver from the same vendor, so it does not specify the contract between these two entities. An EJB server can host one or more EJB containers.