Sun has posted the early draft review of JSR-318 Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1. New features in 2.0 include:
- A simplified Local view that provides Session Bean access without a separate Local Business interface.
- Packaging and deployment of EJB components directly in a .war without an ejb-jar.
- A Singleton session bean component that provides easy access to shared state, as well as application startup/shutdown callbacks.
- Automatically created EJB Timers.
- Calendar based EJB Timer expressions.
- Asynchronous, reliable, session bean invocations.
- The definition of a lightweight subset of Enterprise JavaBeans functionality that can be provided within Java EE Profiles such as the Java EE Web Profile.
Comments are due by March 30.