The Java EE 5 Security services are provided by the container and can be implemented using declarative or programmatic techniques. In addition to declarative and programmatic ways to implement security (in J2EE), Java EE 5 supports the use of metadata annotations for security. This post will describe how to secure EJB 3.0 beans. The post consists of a simple EJB, with a web client. In order to run the example, follow these steps.... more »

Being a big fan of the EJB 3.0 specification, I read this new EJB 3.1 New Features article published by Serverside right away. Clearly, the current EJB spec is much simpler to use and maintain than previous generations. Building upon that logic, the upcoming EJB 3.1 specification looks even better.... more »

Java EE 5 provides all the features you need to build a robust enterprise application right in an EJB 3.0 container, but incorporating the relative strengths of Spring and Hibernate can further improve the productivity and quality of your application.... more »

I presented a Spring / EJB 3 Comparison/Integration talk at the IndicThreads Java conference in Poona. It was very well received. Here is the link to the presentation for your reading pleasure.... more »

In "Defining Your Object Model with JPA," Chris Maki walks through a blog's object model with JPA, using mapped superclasses and entity listeners to provide functionality that you might not have thought of. He starts off with some simple requirements of the object model, and then fulfills them - including some requirements that a DBA might offer.... more »

I'm looking for feedback on some new features being discussed in the EJB 3.1 expert group. Click here for full details.... more »

Speaking at the Real-World Java Seminar in New York City, Tripod Technologies chief architect Reza Rahman shared with the audience in New York City's historic Roosevelt Hotel the results of an interesting comparative analysis between EJB3, Spring, and Hibernate carried out by him and his coauthor Debu Panda.... more »

In the previous blog Introduction to stateful session Bean in NetBeans there was information regarding developing stateful session bean. Here we will learn how to make call business methods of a stateful session bean.... more »

In previous blog Creating J2ee Modules in NetBeans IDE we got the basic knowledge about creating EJB-Module in NetBeans IDE.... more »

In previous blog Creating Message Driven Beans in NetBeans we learned about developing a Message Driven Bean in NetBeans IDE. Here we will learn how to call it using features of NetBeans IDE.... more »