Enterprise JavaBeans (idea) by 12agnarok

Some food for thought:

Enterprise JavaBeans framework is built around Java RMI (Remote Method Innovacation), but abstracts the developer from using RMI in their code. This way it makes it easy to make distributed applications.

The guts of the EJB server (beans, servlets, etc) have to be in Java, nothing earth shattering there. The fun starts with external access to EJBs. It is language agnostic, as long as they follow the interfaced required by the EJB. In the same vein as CORBA.

EJBs are very reusable, because one bean can be used across any EJB server. In theory at least. All EJB servers have to follow Sun's EJB architecture standards, but difference do exist. For example, authentication is handled differently from BEA's Weblogic and IBM's WebSpere

JavaBeans	Common Object Request Broker Architecture	EJB	buzzword-compliant
It's 6:00 server time, do you know where your node is?	CORBA	J2EE	Java Native Interface
Stateless Session Beans	Entity Beans	JavaServer Pages	Everything Quest
bean	cold fusion	Java	Weblogic JMS communication problem
Message Driven Beans	DCOM	Scalable	Perversity
Internet Inter-ORB Protocol	component	Stateful Session Beans	desktop refrigerator