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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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 ...

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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 ...

Richard Monson-Haefel is the author of Enterprise JavaBeans, 3rd Edition, Java Message Service and one of the world's leading experts on Enterprise Java. He is co-founder of OpenEJB, an open source ...

In the last issues, we have seen how to deploy the WebLogic platform and set up an application domain under it. One of the uses of the BEA WebLogic suite of tools is to develop enterprise applications ...

My @EJB-annotation does not work, why is that? I need help to understand why my bean is null at the breakpoint below. I have tried some different usage of the @EJB but none seems to get the bean ...