Favor asciidoc over ill-defined markdown
De-cruft
Start building an "Add" mechanism (none of this works yet).
Split Bean into a ManagedBean and a SLSB, just to use @TransactionAttribute

Turn over a new pom based on a working project. Repair import.sql
Relent: Put @ on annotation names.
debugging
More debugging.
Actually you DO want a JTA datasource here, folks (if want stuff committed...)
Trivial redirector JSP.
Add 'Add' Button
Add dummy @TransactionAttribute on read method.
Two rows for the description.
Tweaking