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 ...

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 ...

The latest version of OpenEJB, an open source lightweight EJB implementation framework, supports Dependency Injection of Enums, Collections and Maps, OSGi, and EJB 3.0 specification. OpenEJB 3.0 ...

There is a growing recognition -- even among the Java faithful -- that it is necessary to simplify the technology to win converts. This will happen with the next version of EJB, Version 3.0.

In this series of two articles, you learn how to develop simpler and more robust enterprise Java applications using the POJO (plain-old Java object) programming model in EJB 3.0. Runnable sample ...

The driving force behind EJB 2.1 is the need for Enterprise JavaBeans technology to support Web services -- a need that in turn is driven by Microsoft's release of its mammoth .NET platform, which is ...