Make the Right Decision with Our Side-by-Side Comparison of Spring and EJB 3.0, Part 2
Explore the similarities and differences between two of the most popular Java technologies today and learn key distinctions in making a technological decision between the two. Part 2 explores messaging, remoting, dependency injection, and more.
by Rod Coffin
September 14, 2006
his is the second article in a two-part series comparing Spring and EJB 3.0. The first article looked at how each technology addresses persistence, transaction management, and state. In this article I'll continue the analysis by looking into other characteristics such as messaging, remoting, dependency management, and intermediation, and I'll conclude by offering an overall analysis of the two technologies and several integration strategies for combining the best of both.
Messaging
Enterprise applications often don't exist in isolation but must interact with other applications and services running within and outside a company. Messaging is a common approach to this problem and support is provided by both Spring and EJB 3.0. There are two basic operations in messaging: sending and receiving. And, typically, there are two methods of receiving messages: explicit message retrieval and automatic notification (listening).
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his is the second article in a two-part series comparing Spring and EJB 3.0. The 
