Brian Zimbelman

This is the first in a two-part series on Event management in large distributed applications built on top of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB). This installment will cover the architecture and the implementation of a local (single VM) version of the event distribution system. The second article will implement an EJB version of the system that will handle distributed events from remote VMs. One of the goals of Enterprise JavaBeans is to make it easy to write applications. Application developers won't have to understand low-level transaction and state management details, multithreading, resource pooling and other complex low-level APIs. In the nominal case this extrapolation of the complexities of building large, complex distributed applications has been accomplished well. It doesn't take much more effort to implement an interface to a database table object using EJB than it... (more)