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