# EJB 3 - Dead Or Alive ...very alive, See Quickvote Results

JavaMagazin, one of the biggest, German Java related magazines, started an online survey (quickvote)  with the question EJB - Dead Or Alive. The result really surprised me:

                          			

    		

			






                             

                                 

					




Quickvote: [freely translated by me, here the origin]




	
		
	EJB - Dead Or Alive?

			
			I'm using EJB 2x. (8%)		
			
				 
				
			
			
		
			
			 I'm using EJB 3. (58%)		
			
				 
				
			
			
		
			
			 I don't use EJB and "pure" Web-Stack instead (Tomcat & Co.). (12%)		
			
				 
				
			
			
		
			
			 I don't use EJB and the alternative Stacks instead (Spring & Co.). (22%)		
			
				 
				
			
			
		 Participants: 1375 (at 19.08.2008)What surprised me: the small percentage of EJB 2.X. In Germany there is still huge amount of EJB 2.0 projects. Most of them will be ported to Java EE 5 next time. The second surprise was the EJB 3 adoption. I'm using EJB 3 in several projects but the amount of 58% (in this context) is huge. I actually thought, the aggregated amount of the alternatives will be greater, than EJB 3 and 2 together, but the opposite is true.Hopefully this survey was not sponsored by the "EJB-Mafia" :-). So if you would like to keep your job and learn more about EJB 3 start here :-).