Java News from Wednesday, October 31, 2007

JBoss's Gavin King has published the early draft review of JSR-299, Web Beans in the Java Community Process (JCP). According to the JSR, "The goal of this work is to enable EJB 3.0 components to be used as JSF managed beans, unifying the two component models and enabling a considerable simplification to the programming model for web-based applications in Java." It continues:

Web Beans provides a unifying component model for Java EE by defining:

In particular, Web Beans allows EJB 3.0 components to be used as JSF managed beans, thus unifying the the component models of EJB and JSF and significantly simplifying the programming model when EJB and JSF are used together.

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