Hi Steve, Kyle Brown's is the best list that I have seen as it is easy to read and asks some good questions for you to decide whether EJBs apply or not for your project. You can judge for yourself though. It is not IBM specific; it is general to any J2EE EJB container. This is the most convenient place to find it besides his later webcast presentation and book which also covers the same "Need for EJBs" question. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ibm-ejb/
And as this question gets asked all the time, there are probably other checklists out there. My recommendation would be to start with this one first. Kyle has also done some interesting papers on considerations for structuring your EJBs and related components for best performance as part of his work on Patterns and Components. -Chris Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Steve Muench [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 9:47 AM Subject: Re: not every thing is an ejb? | My opinion is that in this case a helper class is the right solution. | I see the use of the session ejb-s only for business logic that | needs/requires the advantages of the ejb container. Ionel, Is there a convenient checklist online anywhere to your knowledge of list of "Top Ten signs that your business logic needs/requires the advantages of the ejb container"? Having some kind of checklist out in the public like this would answer a lot of common questions people have about J2EE and when or when not to use an Enterprise Bean in the mix. I know one reason that seems to come up a lot is if your component must participate in a transaction with other components (perhaps that you didn't build), then this seems like one thing for this checklist. Has anyone in the EJB community created such a list? _____________________________________________________________________ Steve Muench - Developer, Product Manager, XML Evangelist, Author "Building Oracle XML Applications" - www.oreilly.com/catalog/orxmlapp =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
