Thanks for your input Jack. Good point about MDB's. I failed to
mention that. I can see how they would be quite useful in an enterprise
environment. Ooops did I just say the "E" word. He also stated that
Stateful Session Beans were not as bad as the industry perceives them to
be. He stated his testing indicated a potential for holding the same
kinds of information as HttpSessions with reasonably similar performance
and overhead. Not sure what to think about that one. Ive always stayed
away from Stateful beans.

Im with you on Hibernate, I want to understand more about it and get a
sample web application put together before forming an opinion. It seems
promising though.

Dave's presentation was top notch. I guess those 90% still don't know
that Dave mentioned them since, of course, they were not there ;)


Mike