The details of Java EE 6 have been getting hashed out for quite a few months in the JSR 316 expert group, which I am part of. The goal of this article is to give you an overview of the changes in Java ...

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Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) has a powerful facility dedicated to expressing the business logic of an application and for accessing a database using a JavaBeans-like concept. That facility is ...

AGartner Inc. survey earlier this year revealed that barely 5% of its clients using Java were advanced enough to deploy their own Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs). Although damning at first glance, such a ...

Developers who have worked with Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) technology since its inception have experienced the hassle of the EJB development lifecycle. When I started to work with EJB 1.1 containers, ...

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 ...