Any web based application can be built on the concept of a multi-tier, MVC model. For better maintainability, applications should be designed in such a way that the Presentation Layer and the Business ...

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 ...

The EJB Best Practices chapter discusses best practices in terms of design, development, building, testing and working with EJB. These guidelines will help in answering some of the dilemmas you face ...

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Various J2EE toolmakers have worked in recent years to ease the task of developing to the J2EE platform. Perhaps only a few of their advances have had much effect to date on EJB design, which is for ...

In the early days of the Java revolution, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) promised to end complaints that the new hot language was good only for client-side development. The EJB architecture was designed ...

With the advent of Spring, developers now have, for the first time, a truly lightweight alternative to EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans). Using Spring, you can take advantage of many of the features offered ...

Web services, which allow applications to swap functionality across the Web, received a boost from BEA Systems Inc. here last week at eWorld 2001, the vendor’s sixth annual user conference. The firm ...