[news.eclipse.technology.ejb-orm] Re: ejb3-orm currently not usable for

["Max Rydahl Andersen" <max.andersen@xxxxxxxxx>]

> vendors. At least ejb-3_0-dr2-spec-persistence.pdf has to say about

Please read the public draft and not the out-dated dr2.

"5.2.2.2 Obtaining an Entity Manager Factory in a J2SE Environment"

> So, to note something differentiating that is important "for today", EJB  
> 3.0 currently cannot be used on the client side, i.e. it currently  
> cannot be used for applications based on the Eclipse Rich Client  
> Platform, while JDO 2.0 (jsr220-orm) can. Given that this is not even  
> specified yet in EJB 3.0, it will still take some time once it is until  
> there will exist any reliable implementations.

This is not true, and please note that JSR220 is called EJB3, not JDO.

There exists at least two implementations of this and more to come.

So, in short: EJB3 can be used on the client side today.

/max