EasyBeans

Infobox Software
name = EasyBeans



caption =
developer = OW2 Consortium
latest release version = 1.0.1
latest release date = release date|2008|07|04
latest preview version =
latest preview date =
operating_system = Cross-platform
programming language = Java
genre = Enterprise JavaBean
license = GNU Lesser General Public License
website = http://www.easybeans.org

EasyBeans is an open-source Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) container hosted by the OW2 Consortium. The License used by EasyBeans is the LGPL. EasyBeans is the EJB 3.0 container of the JOnAS application server.

EasyBeans main goal is to ease the development of Enterprise JavaBeans. It uses some new architecture design like the bytecode injection (with ASM ObjectWeb tool), IoC, POJO and can be embedded in OSGi bundles or other frameworks (Spring, Eclipse plugins, etc.).

It aims to provide an EJB 3.0 container as specified in the Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) in its fifth version. It means that Session beans (Stateless or Stateful), Message Driven Beans (MDB) are available on EasyBeans.

See also

* JOnAS application server
* Hibernate
* OpenEJB

External links

* [http://www.easybeans.org/ The EasyBeans developer site]
* [http://www.easybeans.net/ The EasyBeans site]
* [http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=220 JSR 220] (EJB 3.0)
* [http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=181 JSR 181] (Web Services Metadata for the Java Platform)