I was browsing through "Java Community Process" home page and was surprised to see that
EJB 3.0 might be released soon along with
J2EE 1.5 (especially since there was more than 2 years of gap between EJB 2.0 and EJB 2.1).
The public review will be somewhere in June 2004.
Please refer the url below for more details :
http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=220 I really hope that they beef up EJB-QL. Currently the container providers are supporting lot of functionalities (dynamic queries, lazy loading, ..) using extension to EJB-QL (but then you get stuck with a vendor and takes you back to square 1). The best part here is that the major vendors BEA, Borland, Oracle and IBM are in this expert group , supporting it and lets hope that they all standardize on everything.
Some of the other aspects that are being tackled can be overcome now by using good J2EE
patterns.
That may be the reason SUN is pushing out J2EE 1.4, since they have to push put J2EE 1.5 soon.
Peter
SCJP,
SCJD,SCWCP,SCBCD,IBM-XML,MCP
[ February 16, 2004: Message edited by: Peter Vennel ]