Dion Almaer

Sick of working with all of those different Java files and deployment descriptors when developing EJBs for WebLogic Server? A couple of tools out there allow you to work with just the bean code, and use special Javadoc comments to define what should be in the other interfaces (Home, Remote), and the XML deployment descriptors (ejb-jar.xml, weblogic-ejb-jar.xml). After using these tools, you quickly realize how clean it is to just have one Java source file representing your EJB. Introducing EJBGen In this article we'll look at a tool for generating WebLogic 6.1-compatible EJBs, EJBGen, that was developed by Cedric Beust, a BEA WebLogic architect (www.beust.com/cedric/ejbgen). It can easily be added to your WebLogic build process and is IDE neutral - you just add Javadoc tags in your bean class. Unfortunately, the tool is closed source, since it was developed solely by... (more)