CDI unifies and simplifies the EJB and JSF programming models. It allows enterprise beans to act as JSF managed beans in a JSF application and brings transactional support to the web tier.

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 ...

Note: This article presumes that you are familiar with EJB programming. Also, I explain astral cloning and its consequences as it relates to container-managed entity beans only.

Java and EJB are complex, and it will take time for a programmer to learn about them. But the complexity of Java and EJB programming is dwarfed, in my experience, by a confusing array of configuration ...

Mastering EJB 3rd Edition Review Project What's New July 19th - Chapter 11 - EJB Best Practices First Review Posting The EJB Best Practices chapter discusses best practices in terms of design, ...

The other way is based on the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) programming model — the web service is implemented as a stateless session bean that runs in an EJB container.

COBOL applications have involved huge investments in both money and resources. The last thing you want to do is throw this investment away and rewrite it all in Java.

In the hot Web software development market, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Oracle, and others support the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) programming model, while Microsoft has its own programming model.