I got an email from a customer who wanted to use BLOB data type in their CMP entity bean. They store images in BLOB data types in Oracle database and want to map their CMP entity bean field to a BLOB ...

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 ...

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 ...