Kevin Bedell in his O'Reilly weblog post "The Great EJB Refactoring" summarizes the significant "nuggets" from the EJB 2.1 specification:
- Java-based Web Service clients must be able to invoke methods on Stateless Beans using JAX-RPC.
- non-Java-based Web Service clients must be able to invoke methods on Stateless Beans using SOAP 1.1 over HTTP/HTTPS.
- In addition to Home and Remote Interfaces, Session Beans can now also have a "Web Service Endpoint Interface".
So now EJBs=Web Services.
