What is an Enterprise Java Bean really?
- by HDave
On the Tomcat FAQ it says: "Tomcat is not an EJB server. Tomcat is not a full J2EE server."
But if I:
use Spring to supply an application context
annotate my entities with JPA
annotations (and use Hibernate as a
JPA provider)
configure C3P0 as a connection pooling data
source
annotate my service methods
with @Transactional (and use Atomikos
as JTA provider)
Use JAXB for marshalling and unmarshalling
and possibly add my own JNDI capability
then don't I effectively have a JEE application server? And then aren't my beans EJBs? Or is there some other defining characteristic?
What is it that a JEE compliant app server gives you that you can't easily/readily get from Tomcat with some 3rd party subsystems?
