A Sampling of EJB 3.1

Ken Saks posted some interesting examples and impressions about EJB 3.1 at the Sun enterprise blog. He is the Specification Lead for EJB 3.1 and a Senior Staff Engineer in the Java EE team at Sun. Read his blog.

Hot topics:

• Ease of Development


• No-interface View


• Simplified Packaging


• New EJB 3.1 Features

EJB 3: From legacy technology to secret weapon

Some say Enterprise JavaBeans earned its reputation for complexity one burned out programmer at a time. But developers today have begun to notice that EJB 3 is an entirely different animal. Convention over configuration, annotations, dependency injection, and aspect orientation make modern EJBs a lean alternative to XML-laden and JAR-heavy frameworks. In this article, Adam Bien explains how EJB 3's new component model and persistence handling help streamline enterprise development -- and even work well for small and midrange applications.

It's worth reading :) give it a try :)

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2008/jw-10-ejb3.html