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Considering what they are, Enterprise JavaBeans are "easy". As of EJB 2.0 they became even easier. And as of EJB 2.1 you can generate Web services from EJBs. You could say EJBs are too easy. You can create EJBs using an IDE with just a few mouse clicks. What could be easier? A major value of EJBs is their contribution to a set of business standards. EJBs enable scalable distributed transactions and connection to a vast array of Internet services - a modern version of what mainframe transaction systems used to do. However, no matter how easy EJBs may look, you need to be discressionary and careful about usign them. Scalability and distributed services, the platform architecture for EJB and J2EE have been a complex undertaking. And to understand how to write, integrate, and deploy EJBs, you need to understand this platform architecture.