This series of articles previews changes in EJB 3.1. EJB 3.0 brought simplicity to Java EE 5 by moving away from a heavyweight programming model. EJB 3.1 aims to build on those successes by moving ...

Do you have a Java class whose functionality would be useful across the entire enterprise? Do you have many classes with enterprise potential and existing applications that use them? Creating EJB ...

Java, Enhydra and Other Problems Before we continue, it's important to stress that neither EJB nor the Java language are truly free software. While you might not have to pay to download Java or the ...

This series of articles is a preview of the changes the EJB 3.1 expert group is working on for the next version of the Java EE specification. EJB 3.1 aims to build on those successes by moving further ...

Deciding whether or not to employ Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) technology in Web and other enterprise applications is not an easy choice. On the plus side are developers who code in Java on the J2EE ...

Mike Keith is the co-specification lead of EJB 3.0 (JSR 220) and also a member of the Java EE 5 expert group (JSR 244). He has been involved in EJB since its initial release and other forms of ...

The Enterprise Java Bean 3.0 (EJB 3) specification marked a very important way-point in the long march of Java in the enterprise. The specification was built very apparently with input from the ...

User experiences with the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 1.1 distributed-component model and feedback from the EJB 1.1 expert group have informed the architecture of the EJB 2.0 specification. At the ...