Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) is a specification for developing large-scale, distributed business applications on the Java platform. EJB 1.0 was released in 1998. The most current release, EJB 3.2.3, has ...

Richard Monson-Haefel is the author of Enterprise JavaBeans, 3rd Edition, Java Message Service and one of the world's leading experts on Enterprise Java. He is co-founder of OpenEJB, an open source ...

In Part 1 of this series, I discussed the annotation-driven POJO (plain-old Java objects) programming model in Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 (EJB). I explained how to develop POJO services, how to deliver ...

As web applications become more serious, developers have become increasingly demanding about their tools. Over the last two months, we looked at two object-to-relational mapping tools (Alzabo and DODS ...