I’m blogging live from the floor of the Sun JavaOne Conference in San Francisco today, currently attending a session about the new features of EJB 3.1. This article highlights some of the much-needed features added to the EJB 3.1 specification. 1. EJB Singletons (finally!) The EJB 3.1 specification will support shared session bean instances without [...]

For those in the J2EE world, one of the hottest, most contentious topics that has arisen is what went wrong with EJB, version 2. For those not familiar with the subject, I’ll try to provide a brief description. In 2001, Sun released a specification for connecting a Java object, called an Enterprise Java Bean, hereafter [...]