Gradually an industry consensus emerged that the original EJB specification's primary virtue — enabling transactional integrity over distributed applications — was of limited use to most enterprise applications, and the functionality delivered by simpler frameworks like Spring and Hibernate was more useful.

Gradually, commercialism has made him look more and more like the American Santa Claus, but the Swedish jultomte, the Norwegian julenisse, the Danish julemand and the Finnish joulupukki ( in Finland he is still called the Yule Goat, although his animal features have disappeared ) still has features and traditions that are rooted in the local culture.

Gradually his anti-Communist views became outdated but he stubbornly refused to modify them in the face of developments like Richard Nixon's détente with China and Russia in the early 1970s.

Gradually, the training ideas were passed on to others who came to learn and the number of practitioners expanded slowly, but as the practising became more like a dicipline than a pasttime, many people would leave the group.

Gradually, fading as the upper surface cooled, it changed to a thousand sparkling rills among the crevices, and, as it passed beyond the line of complete vision behind the woods near the base, the fires twinkled like stars, or the scintillions of a dying conflagration.

Gradually they are expanding business to other countries like the UAE and China ( Guangzhou )

Gradually, the technicians running Delos begin to notice problems spreading like an infection among the androids: the robots in Medieval World begin suffering an inexplicable number of systemic failures, a robot rattlesnake bites Blane, and against its programming, an android refuses a guest's sexual advances.

Gradually they have brought this frequency down, with the Hydractive XM being set at 0. 6 Hz ( in the " soft " mode ; in " hard ", the car is sprung and damped like a sports car ).

Gradually, the sinister influence of the Men in Grey affects the whole city: life becomes sterile, devoid of all things considered time-wasting, like social activities, recreation, art, imagination, or sleeping.

Tom Nolan in his Ross Macdonald, A Biography, wrote of the author, " Gradually he swapped the hard-boiled trappings for more subjective themes: personal identity, the family secret, the family scapegoat, the childhood trauma ; how men and women need and battle each other, how the buried past rises like a skeleton to confront the present.

Gradually, the foundation expanded its focus to look beyond scientific solutions, recognizing that problems like world hunger are not technical problems, but rather political problems.

Gradually, as you perfect meditation, thoughts become like the water in a deep, narrow gorge, then a great river slowly winding its way down to the sea, and finally the mind becomes like a still and placid ocean, ruffled by only the occasional ripple or wave.

Gradually the station became more like other stations in the U. S. using the " Smooth Jazz " handle, dropping some of its more eclectic music along the way in favor of mass appeal R & B songs.

Gradually, in the early Middle Ages there emerged the massive Romanesque churches, which still kept the fundamental plan of the basilica.

Gradually, judicial independence was established and by the early 19th century Jeremy Bentham wrote:

Gradually, mixed farming and market gardens became the dominant form of agriulture, and in the early twentieth century the area was declared the Garden of Canada.

Gradually decaying throughout the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the palisade disappeared in the early twentieth century, its remaining willows cut during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 by the two countries ' soldiers.

Gradually men became involved in brewing and organised themselves into guilds such as the Brewers Guild in London of 1342 and the Edinburgh Society of Brewers in 1598 ; as brewing became more organised and reliable many inns and taverns ceased brewing for themselves and bought beer from these early commercial breweries.

" Gradually, during the early ' 60s, he began to suffer " hardening of the arteries " and was forced to retire to the University infirmary in 1966.

Gradually the scutum evolved into the rectangular ( or sub-rectangular ) type of the early Roman Empire.

Gradually, as alternative rock became more " mainstream " ( particularly spearheaded by the grunge explosion in the early 1990s ), the Modern Rock Tracks and Mainstream Rock Tracks charts began featuring more of the same songs.

Gradually, he earned back his playing time and both alternated every game for almost 3 months until Khabibulin went down with a groin injury in early February.

Gradually, despite the early punishment he received, Thompson warmed up and worked his way into the fight whilst Haye seemed to tire and slow down.

Gradually, the entire area was catering to the tourism industry, though the grain bazars of Mughal era were long gone, in early 20th century, Paharganj still had principal markets in Delhi for building materials, cement, timber and steel, but by 1947 they had mostly shifted to other locations in the city, while Paharganj had become primarily a densely-populated residential and commercial area, replete with cheap hotels and restaurants for domestic and foreign tourists.

Gradually, cartoons would disappear from WTOG's schedule as with every broadcast station in the early 2000s.

Gradually, it fused onto the verb form and became mandatory, but in the early stages of Greek and Sanskrit this change was not yet complete, and hence augmentless forms existed side-by-side with augmented forms.

Gradually, the Jews of Newark grew in affluence, and many moved south to Weequahic and Hillside, though lower middle-class Jews were to be found in the neighborhood as late as the 1950s.

Gradually the Adelaide sprawl crept up to Marion, and by the 1950s the suburb was well and truly enveloped.

Gradually, with the development of cash crops to supplement the mainstay of rice, and the growth of capitalism in general from the turn of the twentieth century onwards, agricultural cooperatives and the government took over the role by providing farm subsidies, loans, and education in new agricultural techniques.

Gradually, improving Allied technologies such as the Leigh light, hedgehog, squid, and homing torpedoes proved victorious.

Gradually, both began to increase in size and decoration, now showing devices such as pompoms, cords, badges, front-plates, plumes, braiding and also various national heraldic symbols.

Gradually in the early-to-mid-19th century, the various mills and villages took shape such as Harris mills, and the village of Harrisville, Mapleville mills, Oakland mills etc.

Gradually, these districts became separate territories ( such as Yukon ), separate provinces ( such as Alberta and Saskatchewan ) or were absorbed into other provinces.

Gradually the earlier gangs such as the Hell's Kitchen Gang were transformed into organized crime entities around the same time that Owney Madden became one of the most powerful mobsters in New York.

Gradually he began to confine himself more exclusively to subject and historical pictures, varied occasionally by portraits – such as those of Lord Campbell, novelist Letitia Landon, Dickens, and other of his literary friends.

Gradually, however, many forgot what such statues were for and began to worship them, along with many other idols.

Gradually, the pressure grows, culminating in an explosion that ejects materials such as tephra, which in its simplest form, is ash.

Gradually the models became more sophisticated with the addition of such features as ' Glidamatic ' spring suspension and a detailed interior on the Renault Floride ( 222 ) in October 1959, and the fibre-optic style ' Trans-o-Lite ' illuminating lights system first seen on the Superior Ambulance on Cadillac Chassis ( 437 ) in October 1962.

Gradually the subtitles became main titles ( whereas the PPV was not named In Your House: Fully Loaded but Fully Loaded: In Your House ), until regular named shows such as No Way Out, Backlash, and Judgment Day took over.

Gradually, from dealing in coal, he became himself the owner of several mines and extended his business to the manufacture of different kinds of fuel such as briquettes.

Gradually, OSOAVIAKhIM turns into a kind of back-up army training, its courses including such advanced disciplines as tactics, topography and armament.

Gradually, behavior modification / applied behavior analysis within the penal system including residential facilities for delinquent youth lost popularity in the 1970s-1980s due to a large number of abuses ( see Cautilli & Weinberg ( 2007 ) ), but recent trends in the increase in U. S. crime and recent focus on reduction of recidivism have given such programs a second look.

Gradually, the rulers of the western part of Indonesia adopted Indian cultural and political models e. g. proof of such Indian influence on Indonesian art in the 5th century, i. e. an Amaravati Buddha statue found in southern Sulawesi and a Sanskrit inscription found east of Jakarta.

Gradually more colours were introduced, including blue, the most popular colour, particularly in lighter shades such as Wedgwood.

Gradually PEX became more accepted for more indoor plumbing uses, such as carrying pressurized water to fixtures throughout the house.

Gradually, a shift is made from detaining black rebels, or those suspected of being such, to detaining blacks solely on the basis of their race.

Gradually, the legislative enthusiasm receded, but still some of the laws of later emperors, such as Leo III's Novels, are of particular importance.