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 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 ...

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 ...

EJB Design Patterns goes beyond high-level design pattern descriptions into critical EJB-specific implementation issues, illustrated with source code implementations. The book contains a catalog of ...

A must-read tutorial showing how to use Grails (Java's Groovy answer to Ruby on Rails) to quickly build a functional website around an existing EJB 3 entity bean domain model with very little code.

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 ...

A common attribute was that they typically targeted Java or C++, making it difficult for COBOL applications to use them. In recent years, with the growing prominence of the EJB model, Application ...

In-Depth Migrate J2EE Applications for EJB 3.0 The EJB 3.0 programming model has been simplified significantly. Learn migration approaches that help ferret out difficult issues you're likely to face ...

On the surface, it seems simple: Java/EJB has a commanding lead in the enterprise marketplace over .NET. But given the recent release of .NET vs. the three-year lead of J2EE, this is to be expected.