What use are EJBs

Question

I\'m currently learning Jave-EE, having plenty of C++ experience and having learned Java SE. I don\'t understand the purpose of Enterprise Java Beans; can someone clarify th

Answer 1

Just a remark from personal experience ...

I don't doubt of the benefits of EJBs, but having had worked with them, I see EJBs only fitting in cases where security and transactions are very important (i.e: financial applications). For 90% of cases you would be just fine without EJBs. Another thing ... scalability and EJBs are not good friends.