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1. Welcome Seth, can you introduce yourself to the community?
2. Excellent, and what are you most excited about in EJB3?
3. POJO programing is definitely one of the hottest things going. How is the POJO programing model on EJB3 going to affect developers?
4. Excellent. How about annotations? Is that going to change how people program?
5. After this change is there any reason why you would want to use a deployment descriptor?
6. Does it concern you that there is potentially rampant annotation happening?
7. There are other kinds of things that can show up inside of your code, like SQL statements and things like that. Are there any best practices with respect to dealing with that?
8. Will EJB 3 require Java 5?
9. So with the new changes what happens to the old entity model?
10. I'm interested in particular in terms of enhancement that might be made to EJBQL, so if you could comment on that?
11. So how about changes to MDB in EJB 3?
12. So how about testing outside the containers? Is this an important element?
13. So at the beginning of the talk you mentioned disconnected data access, when is that important and how is that used?
14. Can you talk a little bit about the programming model and a little something about this entity manager?
15. Since developers are working with POJOs, how does the entity manager know what to do when an object is reattached?
16. So the developer would add a version attribute to the object model?
17. So how does EJB connect or associate with the Beehive control paradigm?
18. What is the Expert Group currently discussing that wasn't in the earlier draft?
19. Is the entity manager going to be pluggable via some interface?
20. So what is your final advise for people looking at using EJB 3?