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1.3 Summary
Building enterprise Java applications with a simple technology— POJO s—in con-
junction with lightweight frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, and JDO has
some surprising benefits. You have the freedom to develop expressive object mod-
els rather than being forced down a procedural path. You get the benefits of EJB ,
such as declarative transaction management and security, but in a much more
developer-friendly form. You can work on your core business logic without being
distracted by enterprise “issues” such as transaction management and persistence.
You can develop and test your code without being slowed down by deployment. As
a bonus, because the lightweight frameworks are noninvasive you can readily take
advantage of new and improved ones that will inevitably be developed.
In the next chapter we look at the design decisions you need to make when
using them to develop an enterprise application.