Yes, you now have 2 (you did ask for a split, didn't you? ;)) documents
that constitute the EJB 3.2 draft.
They are uploaded for the review at
http://java.net/projects/ejb-spec/downloads, and called the Core
Requirements, and the Optional Features. The latter includes all of the
formerly proposed optional features (i.e. support for EJB 2.1 and
earlier Entity Beans and JAX-RPC based Web Service Endpoints), and the
former has the rest with just a handful of references to the latter.
I did my best with the split. Some things were easy (CMP/BMP chapters),
some were not. E.g., I left deployment descriptors schema in the Core
doc as it wasn't clear how and if it is possible to split it, but the
details that are specific to the optional features are described in the
Optional doc. I changed some code examples that were referencing an
Entity Bean to be using a second Session bean. You'll see more...
I do need help modifying Ch8 Support for Transactions. I ran out of
ideas of how to avoid referencing there the Entity Beans (see the
"diamond" diagram and the corresponding text). May be if/when we
refactor transaction support into a common Java EE document (the name
TBD), it will be fixed there without mentioning the EJBs altogether.
In addition to the actual split, the documents include questions for the
reviewers marked with XXX - Linda did a careful pass through the text
(before I split it) and reworded some of the statements where it was
needed or would benefit from rewording. XXX markers are items that need
further clarifications.
Please carefully review both documents.
Have a nice reading,
-marina