The slogan “Write once, run anywhere” is Sun’s way of characterizing Java’s platform portability. However, to most Java developers, the slogan more closely represents a noble, and somewhat lofty, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...