ian, can you maybe make it optional for a new thread to show up on the front page? on a related note, I'm at the www.springforward2006.com conference. it's pretty sweet. just heard a talk from s...

Java Persistence API sounds pretty cool. Seems like they're taking a lot of good ideas from Hibernate and similar tools. How does JPA relate to EJB?

I thought EJBs *were* the Sun answer to persistance? Why do they feel the need to have another API?