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Hello All,

I have interests to pursue career in components development (EJB ).
Where do I start. I have good knowledge about JAVA language but not on
any other J2EE or J2Se technologies? What are the prerequisites to
learn EJB?

Thanks Much

Nagendra

"Nagu" <> wrote in message
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> Hello All,
>
> I have interests to pursue career in components development (EJB ).
> Where do I start. I have good knowledge about JAVA language but not on
> any other J2EE or J2Se technologies? What are the prerequisites to
> learn EJB?
>
> Thanks Much
>
> Nagendra
>
I heard a rumor that EJB is now "old hat." Can anyone confirm?

Ann wrote:
> I heard a rumor that EJB is now "old hat." Can anyone confirm?

As in "nobody cares for it anymore"? Definitely not. There isn't
really anything that supersedes it.

Quite, the opposite, actually: the new EJB 3.0 spec is considered
a big improvement. The thing is that EJBs are not for everyone: they
add a lot of overhead (both in development and performance-wise),
and most applications don't actually need the "value added" they
provide. This has become more common knowledge than it used to
be, when EJBs were hyped relentlessly. There are a lot of people
who bought into the hpye and were disappointed with the results
because EJBs were simply not the right tool for their problem.

Nagu wrote:

> I have interests to pursue career in components development (EJB ).
> Where do I start. I have good knowledge about JAVA language but not on
> any other J2EE or J2Se technologies? What are the prerequisites to
> learn EJB?

Start off by using a good text reference. I recommend _Enterprise Java
Beans_ from O'Reilly, along with a copy of Eclipse, JBoss and JBoss-IDE.
Those together make for an excellent learning environment.

--
Darryl L. Pierce <>
Visit my webpage: <http://mcpierce.multiply.com>
"By doubting we come to inquiry, through inquiry truth."
- Peter Abelard

Ann wrote:

> I heard a rumor that EJB is now "old hat." Can anyone confirm?

I heard that FUD in Java newsgroups is now "old hat". Can anyone confirm?

--
Darryl L. Pierce <>
Visit my webpage: <http://mcpierce.multiply.com>
"By doubting we come to inquiry, through inquiry truth."
- Peter Abelard

Ann wrote:
> "Nagu" <> wrote in message
> news: oups.com...
>
>>Hello All,
>>
>>I have interests to pursue career in components development (EJB ).
>>Where do I start. I have good knowledge about JAVA language but not on
>>any other J2EE or J2Se technologies? What are the prerequisites to
>>learn EJB?
>>
>>Thanks Much
>>
>>Nagendra
>>
>
> I heard a rumor that EJB is now "old hat." Can anyone confirm?
>
>
EJB 2.x is certainly awful in a lot of ways. As has been mentioned, 3.0
should take away a lot of the pain, and I'm really looking forward to it!

"Darryl L. Pierce" <> wrote in message
news:hOYrd.81109$.. .
> Ann wrote:
>
> > I heard a rumor that EJB is now "old hat." Can anyone confirm?
>
> I heard that FUD in Java newsgroups is now "old hat". Can anyone confirm?

Good one, made me smile

>
> --
> Darryl L. Pierce <>
> Visit my webpage: <http://mcpierce.multiply.com>
> "By doubting we come to inquiry, through inquiry truth."
> - Peter Abelard

Ann wrote:

>>>I heard a rumor that EJB is now "old hat." Can anyone confirm?
>>
>>I heard that FUD in Java newsgroups is now "old hat". Can anyone confirm?
>
> Good one, made me smile

Right back atcha, missus.

--
Darryl L. Pierce <>
Visit my webpage: <http://mcpierce.multiply.com>
"By doubting we come to inquiry, through inquiry truth."
- Peter Abelard

Collin VanDyck wrote:

>> I heard a rumor that EJB is now "old hat." Can anyone confirm?
>>
> EJB 2.x is certainly awful in a lot of ways. As has been mentioned, 3.0
> should take away a lot of the pain, and I'm really looking forward to it!

What, specifically, would you consider to be painful about 2.x?
Especially with 2.1, I find it to be a breath of very useful fresh air.
1.x was painful, sure, but 2.x has been quite useful and IMO powerful a
tool to use.

--
Darryl L. Pierce <>
Visit my webpage: <http://mcpierce.multiply.com>
"By doubting we come to inquiry, through inquiry truth."
- Peter Abelard

Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> Nagu wrote:
>
>> I have interests to pursue career in components development (EJB ).
>> Where do I start. I have good knowledge about JAVA language but not on
>> any other J2EE or J2Se technologies? What are the prerequisites to
>> learn EJB?
>
>
> Start off by using a good text reference. I recommend _Enterprise Java
> Beans_ from O'Reilly, along with a copy of Eclipse, JBoss and JBoss-IDE.
> Those together make for an excellent learning environment.
>


What about using MyEclipse to get the J2EE support?