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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 ...

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Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) is a specification for developing large-scale, distributed business applications on the Java platform. EJB 1.0 was released in 1998. The most current release, EJB 3.2.3, has ...

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 ...

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 ...

COMMENTARY-- Many enterprises have generated COBOL applications involving huge investments in both money and resources over the last 20 years. The last thing they want to do is throw this investment ...

POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) when coding beans in enterprise applications.

TODAY'S TIP REGARDS a performance characteristic that is particularly important to certain Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) applications, although it has applicability to other types of Java applications as ...

Last month, we began to look at Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), the centerpiece of Sun's J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) standard for server-side web applications. While neither the Java language nor the ...