Chris Brooke

Component-based development (CBD) has been around for years. Anyone who has been a developer for any length of time has no doubt leveraged some form of reuse in an application. It may have been as simple as using a Swing component on the form of a client application. As with many areas of technology, software development and the evolution of developer tools is marked not so much by huge, dramatic leaps forward, but rather by constant innovation and improvement. When Sun Microsystems first introduced the Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) specification in 1997, no one thought that managing persistence would be such a big deal. But a big deal it was. Sun listened, and introduced Container-Managed Persistence (CMP) in the EJB 2.0 specification. More recently, BEA has listened to its customers and provided an integrated development environment for the WebLogic platform that goes... (more)