The OpenEJB developer team has completed the official OpenEJB 3.0 final release, which is their first major release since early January 2008. Congratulations to the developers and to the Apache Software Foundation!
As an enthusiast and grateful OpenEJB user, I figured in addition to cutting over my projects to use the new release, I'd post something at J.N about it in case others are interested...
In the last two months, I've come to understand in excruciating detail the various tradeoffs between using generics and enums in my JPA-ready entity library. Most recently, I've been inspired to write down some of my notes, to save myself and others some headache in the future.First of all, as always, a pattern is necessary to illustrate the problems I've seen. Consider the task of persisting a...
