EJB & MVC: Xmas observations for the obsessive compulsive

EJB: Big and Scary
I am scared of Enterprise Java Beans. They sound a bit butch for a cheesey Domino charlie like me. So it is often a relief to read:

Fowler's first law of Distributed Object Design: Don't distribute your objects!

But then you have a quick surf and you find:

Let's start out with the reasons that most people think are important for deciding between EJB and Java classes, but are actually not important at all. ... read more

Perhaps they are not scary after all Veronica.

Model View Controller Considered Harmful!
Lordy. The IBM stuff is packed to the gills with MVC stuff. Struts and more Struts and then you read:

"the origins of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern and its misapplication to servlet framework architectures".

As Shaggy said "heeeey Scoob!"

That was a bit dull mate, spotted anything else
Yeah ... There's that saying "see Naples and die". Well, I think I should have been "See this gig and die". Greatest ever 'soul' show - ain't that the truth sister!