[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I was thinking about this discussion of servlets and application servers
> and taking into consideration that I know nothing about EJB, but have some
> minor experience with an app server,...
>
> So I pose this question to my java compatriots with experience in other
> realms of server side java. Why would I use an app server or some other
> technology? What does EJB give me? Couldn't I use EJB with servlets as
> opposed to an EJB centric appserver?
In a nutshell (speaking as an "expert" who's read a few dozen more EJB
documentation pages than you have :-), EJB is good for centralizing your beans
on large, high-capacity server(s) that offer the sort of performance,
scalability, and reliability you need in an enterprise. The beans live,
serverside, in containers that handle a lot of the plumbing issues -- so, for
example, the beans can implement the business logic and let the container worry
about how to connect to databases. You connect to beans from the client side
with ordinary RMI calls.
Nathan
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