The much-awaited Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 early draft was released recently. This article provides a quick overview of the newly proposed EJB programming model, which includes metadata support ...

Note: This article presumes that you are familiar with EJB programming. Also, I explain astral cloning and its consequences as it relates to container-managed entity beans only.

In the hot Web software development market, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Oracle, and others support the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) programming model, while Microsoft has its own programming model.