What Do MTS and EJB Have in Common?
” This April article sheds light on the stateless component architectures offered by Microsoft in the form of MTS and Sun’s Enterprise JavaBeans. Stateless session beans are the main topic of this column, including a discussion about how clustering of stateless components offers easy load-balancing and failover for your middle tier. Vol. 5, Issue 5: “Developing Coarse-Grained Business Components” This May article clarifies some less-than-obvious details in the EJB 1.1 specification regarding developing coarse-grained entity beans. It reviews commonly encountered technical problems such as how to cache dependent objects and ensure they’re refreshed correctly, how to map a BMP (bean-managed Persistence) entity bean to multiple tables with JDBC and how to declaratively change the behavior of your component through environment entries. Vol. 5, Issue 6 (JavaOne2000 Special Edition): “PowerTier 6’s PowerPage: Instantly Web-Enabling Your EJBs!” This product review covers a new feature of the
