JBoss have released RC1 of 4.0 this week. This is the same code base that was J2EE 1.4 certified last week, and I believe is the first J2EE App Server to be 1.4 certified.
Gavin King’s comments on EJB3.0
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 article on using Spring’s AOP features
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 leaves Java behind…
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.