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Java Enterprise Edition, or Java EE (previously called J2EE), is a powerful but notoriously complex platform for developing server-side applications. Since its early days, complexity has long been ...

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A programming interface (API) that provides an interface between a Java program and a legacy application such as CICS and R/3. Java Connectors, which originally part of the Java EE platform, make ...

In Part 2, I discuss how EJB 3.0 entity beans leverage POJO and annotations to greatly simplify your data model and its persistence-to-backend relational databases. Before we get into the details of ...