TheServerSide.com have a good introductory article on using the Commons Digester to consume data in XML and instantiate object representations of the data on their site here.
Gavin King’s blog comments on EJB3.0
Gavin King comments on the EJB3.0 announcement in his blog here.
As the EJB3.0 persistence model becomes more ‘Hibernate-like’, it will be interesting to see where Hibernate goes in the near future.
EJB3.0 vs JDO2.0 discussion
Following last weeks announcement of some of the details of the upcoming EJB3.0 spec, there is a heated discussion about the benefits and disadvantages of both approaches (with comments from Gavin King on Hibernate thrown into the mix), on TheServerSide.com.
EJB3.0 spec announcement at ServerSide Symposium
At yesterdays ServerSide Symposium conference there was an annoucement and preview of some of the details of the upcoming EJB3.0 specification.
Good news is it is a complete departure from the current EJB programming model involving Home, Remote and Local interfaces, and instead using metadata markup in the source to specify that a given Class is an EJB.
More details here