Comments on: He Returns To J2EE Standards! http://technote.wsjoung.com/2006/11/17/he-return-to-java-ee-standards/ simple note Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:11:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rob http://technote.wsjoung.com/2006/11/17/he-return-to-java-ee-standards/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Rob Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:41:10 +0000 http://wsjoung.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/he-return-to-java-ee-standards/#comment-13 Granted, EJB3 does bring something in terms of unification, but it does also have significant omissions from its API, and for some its Architecture can be questioned (Session Management of EntityManager via Stateful Session Beans). Refer for EJB3 API Omissions: http://www.avaje.org/ejb3api.html For some indeed EJB3 will be good enough and they would say 'there are too many frameworks'... but others could equally say there are still too many issues with EJB3. Have you ever thought what EJB3.0 would look like if Hibernate never existed? Do you think all the features in Hibernate are in EJB3? Do you think EJB3 is as good as it gets? Granted, EJB3 does bring something in terms of unification, but it does also have significant omissions from its API, and for some its Architecture can be questioned (Session Management of EntityManager via Stateful Session Beans).

Refer for EJB3 API Omissions:
http://www.avaje.org/ejb3api.html

For some indeed EJB3 will be good enough and they would say ‘there are too many frameworks’… but others could equally say there are still too many issues with EJB3.

Have you ever thought what EJB3.0 would look like if Hibernate never existed? Do you think all the features in Hibernate are in EJB3? Do you think EJB3 is as good as it gets?

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