Category: Kev’s Blog

Gavin has a good article on EJB3.0 in his blog and also on TheServerSide.com.

He makes an interesting suggestion that the new lightweight programming model of EJB3.0 with it’s annotations might make make the use of session beans a more suitable replacement for the current use of HttpSession in the web tier. There has been a trend over thae last couple of years to not use Stateful session beans, in favour of using Stateless instead. App server vendors have been saying for quite some time though that the perceived overhead of using Stateful beans is just not founded on any real fact (anymore?).

EJB3.0 is going to change EJB development considerably – this is the spec that EJB1.0 should have been….

OnJava.com have an easy to follow article on how to the AOP features of the Spring Framework on their website this week.

Richard Monson-Haefel, known to many for being involved in many Java JSR projects (including EJB3.0) has taken a new analyst job which means he has to have a neutral view on technology, and as a result has cut his involvement with the Java world.

Sun have started a ‘Java-powered’ logo advertising promotion that was launched this month at JavaOne.

The promotion aims to include a Java logo on devices that include a Java JVM inside, which already includes millions of cell phones shipped world-wide. Sun has the opportunity to cash in on the success of J2ME shipped with mobile phones if they can pitch this right – Java is already out there in the consumer market, the tough part now is increasing consumer awareness to cash in on the popularity.