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Yesterday evening I attended the EJB3 workshop at Amis, and NO I am NOT thinking about switching, it’s all about knowledge. I was told this workshop would not be focused at persistence, but mainly about session beans (i.e. remoting, security). Wrong.

The presentation (and hands-on part) was a brief overview of JEE5 focused at people completely new to the concept. Still, good to see it all once more. The main problem of the presentation was the lack of knowledge of the presenter (At least have the correct answer to ‘what is JEE5′, I really don’t think it’s just a book) and the unnecessary amount of errors in example code used in the sheets (missing casts, unsafe conversions, incorrect EQL).

The hands-on part of the workshop wasn’t any better, mainly due to poorly refactored documentation and the fact that we HAD to use netbeans.

Some advice for other attendees would be to just take a look at the JBoss EJB3 trailblazer.

Still, I learned a lot during and after this workshop:

• DOJO really rocks
• JDeveloper is getting better and better
• ADF isn’t much bit better than MyFaces
• OC4J is an applications server which presumably sucks at deploying WAR files
• More pizza then persons rocks!
• a Peugot 306 can be equiped with a warpdrive and instantaneous stopping mechanism