Preface
In its early days, EJB was inspired by the distributed computing ideas of technologies such as CORBA and was intended to add scalability to server-side applications. EJB and J2EE enjoyed some of the greatest buzz in the industry during the dot.com boom.
The initial goal for EJB was to provide a simpler alternative to CORBA through the benefits of a standard development framework and reusable components. By the time EJB 2 was released, it became apparent that the EJB framework could become the new standard for server-side development. The framework provided Enterprise developers with everything they needed—remoting, transaction management, security, state maintenance, persistence, and web services—but it was heavyweight, requiring developers ...
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