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i recently caught this article on java.sun.com on the upcoming ejb 3.0 spec, which focuses primarily on making the technology easier for developers to use, while not at the expense of the technology's power and sophistication.

the article covers the most germane ease-of-development features documented in the ejb 3.0 spec (now available as an early draft), starting from the perspective of ejb 2.1 and progressing to 3.0. what this article does well is to explain in as straightforward a manner as possible to, say, those who are not intimately familiar with the EJB spécs.

it would have been very nice if ejb 3.0 was available a year ago (along with j2se 5). ejb 1.x's limitations, and 2.x's staggering complexity, have been a major factor in limiting deployments to stateless session beans. relieving the complexity of ejb has been a long-running desire in the java community, and hopefully ejb 3.0 will be available in time to reverse the trend to workaround it (e.g. JDO, the spring framework).