Dario Laverde

OpenEJB has been around for seven years and is one of the few standalone and embeddable EJB containers. Useful mainly for unit testing EJB beans (embedding the containers in unit tests), OpenEJB is also available as a Tomcat plug-in. Which means you can call EJB beans from your Web application's servlets. This fact alone opens up new possibilities for migrating current Web applications to JEE 5 in addition to facilitating development and testing using the popular Apache Tomcat server instead of a full JEE application server, even if you eventually deploy to a dedicated JEE application server. OpenEJB 3 supports JPA out-of-the-box (and CMP by mapping to JPA) and uses the Apache OpenJPA implementation. JMS support is also included in ActiveMQ and recently Web Services annotation support has been added to hook up with a Web service provider like Axis2. There's built-in... (more)