This series of articles is a preview of the changes the EJB 3.1 expert group is working on for the next version of the Java EE specification. The idea is to give you a head's up on the changes as well ...

Java Enterprise Edition, or Java EE (previously called J2EE), is a powerful but notoriously complex platform for developing server-side applications. Since its early days, complexity has long been ...

One part of interacting with an application server is invoking the Servlets and Java Server Pages (JSPs) that reside inside of the Web container. The other half of the puzzle is interacting with ...

In Part 2, I discuss how EJB 3.0 entity beans leverage POJO and annotations to greatly simplify your data model and its persistence-to-backend relational databases. Before we get into the details of ...