Debu Panda, lead author of the recently published EJB 3 in Action (Manning Publications), is a senior principal product manager on the Oracle Application Server development team, where he drives development of the Java EE container. He has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry and has published numerous articles on enterprise Java technologies and has presented at many conferences. Debu maintains an active blog on enterprise Java at http://www.debupanda.com.
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The Java Platform, Enterprise Edition, or Java EE, is the most popular
middleware platform for developing and deploying enterprise applications.
Java EE offers developers a choice of vendors, portability, scalability, and
robustness. However, it has been criticized for its complexity and its need
for a lot of redundant and procedural code. In addition, lightweight
frameworks such as Spring and scripting platforms such as Ruby on Rails have
emerged to challenge the platform's supremacy in the middleware world.
In response, the Java Community Process has made great efforts to simplify
the developer's life with Java EE's latest incarnation: Java EE 5.
Innovations such as radically simplified models for Enterprise JavaBeans
(EJB) and Web... (more)
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In the first part of this article you learned how Java EE 5 has simplified
enterprise application development by adopting a POJO programming model and
making use of Java 5 metadata annotations. You also discovered how the Spring
Framework version 2.0 integrates with Java Persistence API (JPA) and makes it
simple to use from enterprise Java applications... (more)
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become mainstream technology for
integrating disparate systems and applications. For building composite
applications, Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) has emerged as the
standard for business process flow orchestration and application integration
within organizations. Many IT organizations are deploying composite
applications that use BPE... (more)
Debu Panda, lead author of the recently published EJB 3 in Action (Manning Publications), is a senior principal product manager on the Oracle Application Server development team, where he drives development of the Java EE container. He has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry and has published numerous articles on enterprise Java technologies and has presented at many conferences. Debu maintains an active blog on enterprise Java at http://www.debupanda.com.
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