When J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) became a mainstream standard about five or six years ago, EJB (Enterprise Java Bean) technology was sold by many evangelists as the silver bullet for every software problem. Organizations, so we were told, would now be able to minimize development time by utilizing container-provided features. Among those were object [...]

Ilia Papas and I put this solution together about a year ago – actually, Ilia put it together based on my idea and prototype. Our article on Javaworld still generates some feedback and questions. I assume that there are people out there who would like to get their hands on a ready-to-use, configurable component as [...]