title: Using Cassandra in Java EE (GlassFish)
body: <p>I am currently working on an enterprise application that is deployed to GlassFish.  I am attempting to figure out the right way to communicate to a cassandra backend from within an EJB that has been deployed to GlassFish 3.1.  I would prefere to use Pelops to talk to Cassandra.  </p>
  
  <p>Disclaimer: I am new to Java EE and the concepts behind enterprise app servers and EJBs; one of the purposes of this project is to learn these topics. This is out of scope of this question as I am really just looking to be pointed in the right direction for best practices or where I should go to find best practices;  so far google has not been very helpful/consistent on this topic.</p>
  
  <p>More specifically, should I be thinking about writing a JCA connector for cassandra?  Using a singleton EJB that talks to cassandra via Pelops?  Just use pelops directly in my EJBs? (though I thought your not supposed to create socket connections in ejbs)  Something else entirely?</p>