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1. Re: Enterprise Java, what are my options ?
genman Sep 19, 2005 6:54 PM (in response to phon)
For business process flows, JBPM.
For database access (managing business data) EJB3 or Hibernate.
Authorization/security can be handled by JAAS. I guess if your protocol from the client/server is web services over HTTPS, you can use it.
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2. Re: Enterprise Java, what are my options ?
phon Sep 20, 2005 7:53 AM (in response to phon)thank you for the response
i will certainly look into jBPM, as i hadn't heard of it (although it also is a JBoss product apparently)..
so i could use EJB3 or hibernate for database access, but do i also need a framework for the rest of the application? For example, can Spring be of any help here , or would session beans and message-driven beans from the EJB3 spec be more appropriate ?
would it be a good idea to start building a small CRUD application to manage a couple of what i call "helper objects" (like Country, Address, TaxCode, etc) and implement it using the different frameworks (thus making a spring-based one and making a ejb-based one in parallel)?
it seems a bit paradoxal to me that i understand a lot of the more complex features of J2EE like dependency injection, call interception, transactions, security, etc but i don't know where to begin to develop a small CRUD application, that basically just lets a client create some business objects and persist them :)