PicoContainer - How does PicoContainer compare to EJB containers

Oh blimey, it is rather different. EJB has loads of things you must extend, implement, provide and throw. It is also not an IoC design. It is close in that components are managed by a container, but the cumbersome and static nature of the JNDI lookups ensure that it is not actually IoC. PicoContainer is not a superset of EJB though, as it provides no remoting capability (but NanoContainer will). At least the PicoContainer compatible components hosted in this project do not.