Everything about JavaBeans

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: JavaBeansA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Yet Another Kind of JavaBeans: Composed Types from Aggregated InstancesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Enterprise JavaBeansThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Concepts and architecture of a simulation framework based on the JavaBeans component modelCited 14 times
5. Go sideways: Plain old Java objectA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Generics in JavaA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Concepts and architecture of a simulation framework based on the JavaBeans component model

  Herbert Praehofer, Johannes Sametinger, Alois Stritzinger · 2001 · Future Generation Computer Systems · 14 citations

• Performance modeling and prediction of enterprise JavaBeans with layered queuing network templates

  Jing Xu, Alexandre Oufimtsev, Murray Woodside · 2005 · ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · 11 citations

• Formal modeling of the Enterprise JavaBeans™ component integration framework

  J.P. Sousa, D. Garlan · 2001 · Information and Software Technology · 10 citations

• Effective test case selection for component customization and its application to Enterprise JavaBeans

  Hoijin Yoon, Byoungju Choi · 2003 · Software Testing, Verification and Reliability · 6 citations

• Migration of enterprise JavaBeans with ProActive Interposition Objects

  Baomin Xu, Weimin Lian, Qiang Gao · 2003 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 4 citations

• CICS and Enterprise JavaBeans

  A. Bainbridge, J. Colgrave, A Colyer · 2001 · IBM Systems Journal · 3 citations

• Developing portals/portlets using Enterprise JavaBeans for Grid users

  X. Yang, A. Akram, R. J. Allan · 2007 · Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience · 3 citations

• Enterprise JavaBeans caching in clustered environments

  Avraham Leff, James T. Rayfield · 2005 · Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience · 2 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Yet Another Kind of JavaBeans: Composed Types from Aggregated Instances

  E. M. Grinkrug · 2026 · Programming and Computer Software · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Enterprise JavaBeansRichard Monson-Haefel · 1999
• Enterprise JavaBeans by exampleHenri Jubin, Jurgen Friedrichs · 1999
• Applying Enterprise JavaBeansVlada Matena, Beth Stearns · 2000
• EJB design patternsFloyd Marinescu · 2002
• 📕Mastering Enterprise JavaBeansEd Roman, Rima Patel Sriganesh · 2004
• EJB 3 in actionDebu Panda · 2007
• Mastering Enterprise JavabeansEd Roman · 2002
• The awesome power of Java beansLawrence H. Rodrigues · 1998

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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