When should you use EJB?

There's no easy answer. Several unrelated things happened around the same time and turned up some interesting
ideas and observations. I'm sure nobody planned it, but who could have written a better script? For me it all started
when Pavel Boháč asked when to use EJB .
A discussion on the same subject also broke out
on Java.cz.

Some of the opinions are quite interesting, and the discussion goes well beyond EJB into
 Hibernate, SOAP, EJB 3.0 and Spring. The next developments followed quickly. I found
 Radek Burget's article from today, JDO — Java Data Objects, on Interval.cz.
 Then a very nice post by Pavel Kolesnikov showed up in the RSS reader
 built into Thunderbird. EJB 3.0, or why do they keep trying to revive this corpse? responds to
the newly revived Jirka Hradil, or more precisely to his posts Discovering EJB and Studying EJB.

Isn't this lovely for a Friday? If only some sites had… well, never mind.