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EJB 3.0 Preview

Wed, 08 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST

Last month's article on EJB 3.0 (Vol. 9, issue 11) focused primarily on the basic features of the specification. Part 2 dives much deeper into the specification to talk about more advanced features like dependency injection, dependent objects, secondary tables, and inheritance.

EJB 3.0 Preview

Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:00:00 EST

Over the past 15 years, each revision of middleware specifications like DCE, CORBA, and J2EE evolved into a larger, more complex definition of new functionality and bloatware. Rarely has a standards-based specification stepped back and actually tried to make development easier for its user base. Until now that is.

It's the Aspects

Thu, 04 Dec 2003 00:00:00 EST

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a promising new paradigm that came out of Xerox PARC a few years ago and is just now becoming mature and mainstream. A natural complement to object-oriented programming, it has the promise of easing the management of complex systems and making their organization much more intuitive, extendable, and flexible.