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Sunday Dec 14, 2008
I asked: "Do You Love EJBs?" @Devoxx and...
...I'm still alive :-). Actually I was surprised during my short "task force" at Devoxx by several things:
- The interests about EJBs and the amount of attendees. My session: "EJB 3.1 From Legacy Technology To Secret Weapon" was the very last one ...and the THX-cinema :-) was almost full.
- The questions during the session. People ask me stuff like: "Is it better to go with WebBeans instead of EJBs?"
- The immediate feedback afterwards. I got immediately several emails with statements like: "I attended your presentation during Devoxx08, and I confess it was a relief to figure out it was not just me using EJB instead of ..."
Posted at 12:02PM Dec 14, 2008 by Adam Bien in Java EE 5 Architectures And Idioms | Kommentare[5]
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It's kind of funny that you had a packed audience, yet people who use EJB seem to think that they are the only ones using it until they attend a presentation like yours. Its like all EJB users are in the closet and keep it a secret.
Gesendet von Ryan am December 14, 2008 at 04:27 PM CET #
Ryan,
the only remaining problem is the name of the spec - "EJB". Some people still remember the 2.X, even 1.0 days :-)
thanks && regards,
adam
Gesendet von Adam Bien am December 14, 2008 at 09:29 PM CET #
Well done Adam, congrats.
On the other side, the whole fight about the best persistence technique was a load of rubbish. Most people working on things outside of Spring- or Webprojects don't ever have the chance to choose.
Gesendet von Thomas Nagel am December 15, 2008 at 10:16 AM CET #
Thomas,
what do you mean exactly by "fight about the best persistence technique was a load of rubbish"?
Why do you don't have a choice?
but: thanks for your comment,
adam
Gesendet von Adam Bien am December 15, 2008 at 03:52 PM CET #
How do you approach the testing of EJB's, session and entity beans? EJB3Unit? I've tried it a bit, and the project seems interesting, but I've stumbled across a couple of issues I haven't been able to fix.
Gesendet von Viggo am February 17, 2009 at 07:09 PM CET #