I am a developer working for a large communication company. My team
recently inherited a reporting application written in cgi (perl). The
application contains about 50-60 Web based reports (in perl) which
interacts with a DB. My manager asked me to start rewriting the
reports in JSP, Servlets using EJB. My question is whether we need to
use EJB for this project. All the reports are basically SELECTS on a
DB table. It involves some complex processing of data retreived but no
data modifications. I feel that using EJB would be inappropriate for
this project. Cant we just do with JSP, Servlets & java classes (beans
to handle  business logic). What would be the pros and cons of using
EJB versus regular java classes? Also, if I am not using EJB what
happens to connection pooling and other benefits.

Thanks