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EJB 3.0 vs Spring

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EJB 3.0 Interview Online Test	Spring Interview Online Test
Dependency Injection: Can inject anything in the container including EJBs, data sources, JMS resources and JPA resources.	Dependency Injection: Can inject almost anything including lists, maps, properties and JNDI resources.
Transaction management: Works right out of the box, but only JTA is supported.	Transaction management: Have to configure it to make it work, but supports a number of strategies including JTA, JDBC and Hibernate.
Persistence: Tightly integrated through JPA.	Persistence: Framework support for JPA, Hibernate, JDBC, iBatis.
State management: Robust support through Stateful Session Beans and Extended Persistence Context.	State management: Indirect support dependent on web container session management.
Web Services: Seamless support for JAX-WS 2.0	Web Services: Poor direct support, best integration available is via configuring XFire for registered beans.
Messaging: Supported out of the box through Message Driven Beans.	Messaging: Need to add configuration for message listeners. However, JMSTemplate adds nice abstraction over JMS.
AOP: Simple but limited support through interceptors.	AOP: Robust support through AspectJ and Spring AOP alliance.
Security: Integrated support for declarative and programmatic security through JAAS.	Security: Must add and configure Acegi security. However, support beyond JAAS is possible through Acegi.
Scheduling: Simple scheduling possible through EJB Timer service.	Scheduling: Must add and configure Quartz for scheduling.
Remoting: Integrated support through Session Bean remote interfaces. Supports distributed transactions and security.	Remoting: Remoting support may be added via configuration. Remote transactions and security are not supported. However protocols other than RMI such as Hessian and Burlap are supported.
Use EJB 3 If: - You like annotation and dislike a lot of XML configuration. - You prefer a tightly integrated solution stack that makes sensible default choices for you and minimizes configuration. - Your application is very stateful. - Standardization is an important consideration. - You use JSF and are considering using Seam.	Use Spring if: - Your application requires fine-grained control at the container level. - Your application requires a lot of configuration beyond gluing together components and resources. - You need advance AOP feathers.

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