Den 17 Okt 1999 skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Kevin Duffey wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > I am curious, what is all the hype about EJB for anyways? From what I have
> > heard on the #Java channel and articles, EJB is a very young and immature
> > implementation still, and isnt very useful. What exactly does it do for our
> > web site? Is it something I should be considering now?
> > Kevin Duffey
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> there are intros at the javasoft web site and also a number of good books at
> amazon. EJB is young but far from not being useful as it's in productive use
> in many projects and products (including the new intershop ecommerce
> software). Read the intros, understand the technology and see for yourself if
> it helps you with your website. if your website has anything to do with
> transactions, chances are EJB might be very useful, otherwise probably not.
> it's definitely aimed at the enterprise application market, not primarily at
> website development.
As a developer of a web site, using EJB's I have to disagree. EJB's can be very useful
even if your system doesn't yse a lot of transaction. At least with Orion, it gets you
away from a lot of the boring error-prone JDBC-code. You also get nice load-sharing by
just putting in more servers, something that can be very difficult to add later if you
don't use EJB's.
With EJB's you are also free to add another user interface to the system in addition
to the JSP-based web interface. Could be useful for discussion forums for example.
Just my thoughts...
