is ejb still used 2018?
EJB is still there and growing up. There are many new features (SOAP/RESTful webservice, JPA entities, JAXB...) depend on it or at least reuse the philosophy of developing. ... EJB 3.1 and WebBeans 1.0 help make a Java EE 6 container environment become easier to use, similar to frameworks like Seam on Java EE 5 or Spring.