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 ...

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The slogan “Write once, run anywhere” is Sun’s way of characterizing Java’s platform portability. However, to most Java developers, the slogan more closely represents a noble, and somewhat lofty, ...

This series of articles is a preview of the changes the EJB 3.1 expert group is working on for the next version of the Java EE specification. The idea is to give you a head's up on the changes as well ...