Does everyone hate EJB or at least the silent majority? If so I would be interested in learning why. I hear a lot of bad-mouthing of EJB but often without explanation of the reason. Is it seen as just too complex?
As regards not using EJB but using web services, this does't seem like an either or. From what I remember, EJBs can be exposed as web services by adding some annotations to them. It is quite possible that something is going to replace JavaEE in the future. No technology lasts for ever. Saying it has never been more than marketing hype is unfair. I think it is true that not as many people embraced JavaEE and in particular EJB as the creators had hoped but some people have. On Jan 19, 4:57 pm, Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine <[email protected]> wrote: > the referenced podcast is 5 years old ... > -Alexis > > On 19 janv. 2011, at 17:22, Carl Jokl wrote: > > > > > I had done a lot of reading up on EJB 3 given that it was part of my > > final year University project. It didn't seem all that bad to me > > though I appreciate that isn't the same as practical experience. > > > I know EJB 2.x was really complicated. Is a lot of JavaEE criticism > > residual bad feeling against EJB 2.x without taking into account the > > simplifications made since then? > > > The EJB stuff was aimed at a very particular market i.e. sites which > > needed to scale over clusters of servers. > > > I know that things like IIS can cluster though my impression was that > > the Microsoft clustering capabilities were not as good. > > > It seemed to me that this area was one of Java's strongest spaces and > > I am not that aware of many alternatives. > > > It is possible to replicate the same site over multiple servers and > > have some kind of computer sharing out requests between the other > > computers in the cluster. This approach can work with practically any > > technology but as far as I am aware JavaEE goes beyond just being able > > to do that. > > > When it comes to technology it is good and well to criticise one > > technology but if you are going to criticise a technology it is > > usually more constructive to suggest better alternatives. > > > Saying JavaEE is a dead man walking when several different large > > corporations back the technology seems a bit of a strong statement. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "The Java Posse" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
