Get a sneak preview of the new modularity and lightweight features in Java EE 6.

The Seam Web Framework joins the worlds of JavaServer Faces and EJB 3.0, and JBoss Tools is a suite of Eclipse plugins that make developing Seam applications easy and productive.

Spring's POJO-based programming model has proven to be a much better way to write, test, and assemble robust Java EE applications, but it works only if you configure your objects with Spring. What happens when you combine Spring with an in-house legacy framework or Java EE technology such as EJBs or servlets?

Java EE 5 provides all the features you need to build a robust enterprise application right in an EJB 3.0 container, but incorporating the relative strengths of Spring and Hibernate can further improve the productivity and quality of your application.

Improve the performance of your J2EE applications by using a concurrency approach that takes advantage of the inherent thread pool management of EJB timers.

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.

Are you trying to choose between Spring and EJB 3.0? If you are you know what a hard decision it can be. 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.

Unit testing EJBs that are secured through permissions is complex. Learn how to unit test secured EJBs and EJB-based applications in the same production environment without needing to switch off the permission settings.

Sun came a lot closer to a promise of open sourcing Java on the first day of JavaOne this year, but meanwhile plenty else is finding its way to the community. Find out about where Java is going in Mustang and Dolphin, what was hot at NetBeans Day, what you can get today in the Java EE 5 edition, and why Borland, among many others, is talking a lot about supporting the heterogeneous open source stack.

Find out how much you can simplify your EJB code by working through these examples, which show the process for migrating EJBs to version 3.0.

In the tradition of Spring, JBoss offers Seam, which uses a declarative state model, extensive use of annotations, and two-way dependency injection to make automation of huge portions of your complex Java EE apps not just possible, but downright sensible.

Learn, in a test-driven approach, how to use the more advanced features of the EJB 3.0 specification.

With the 3.0 version of EJB, Java's guardians have endeavored to make persistence a gentler beast that borrows the best from other ORM frameworks that have long curried favor with the community. Now, learn how to use the new spec, along with JBoss and Maven, to persist Java objects to a relational database.

The time is ripe to give the EJB 3.0 spec, which was engineered to offer big gains in productivity, a test drive. Learn how to start using JBoss and Maven to develop EJB 3.0 enterprise bean components.

Any J2EE developer knows how hard enterprise Java can be. Find out how the set of new Java EE 5.0 features, such as Web services support, annotations, and enhanced CMP, can make it easier.

Learn how to combine the power of annotations with aspects to provision enterprise services declaratively, in an EJB 3.0-compatible manner, while still providing container independence.

Just as design patterns provide a way to communicate concisely about desired software practices, antipatterns provide the equivalent advantages for communicating undesirable practices—and here's a set of common antipatterns to get you started.

Sun celebrates the 10th anniversary of Java with two more open source product contributions and a roadmap for the Java platform that drives down complexity and, Sun hopes, will grow the Java community to be 'the largest in the world.'

Extend the life of your JUnit tests by enabling them to be executed inside a real deployed J2EE app, not just on developer PCs.

You've decided to switch from EJB to Hibernate for persistence in your J2EE applications, but you don't know what to do with your existing EJB tier. Learn how a few decisions upfront, some simple ground rules, and design patterns can smooth the transition.