This JSR is to develop Java EE 6, a release of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition targeted to ship in 2008.
In the past 8 years, the Java EE platform has grown and matured, and is now able to cover a wide range of enterprise and web application development needs. In addition, the Java EE platform has fostered a vibrant community and marketplace for additional technologies, frameworks, and applications that work with the platform. Some of these provide facilities that are missing from the platform. Others provide alternatives to platform facilities.
A major theme for this release is to embrace and support those technologies as part of the overall Java EE landscape, while also continuing to simplify the platform to better target a wider range of developers. To that end we propose two goals for this release - extensibility and profiles.
Roberto Chinnici is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc. where he works on the JavaTM Platform, Enterprise Edition, with particular focus on Web Services and Ease of Development. He is the specification lead for the JAX-RPC 1.1 and JAX-WS 2.0 technologies and an active participant in W3C and WS-I working groups.
Large scale development of enterprise java solutions— You will get some insights into the development process at the NetWeaver Product Technology Unit and SAP applications build on top of the NetWeaver platform. We will share how we build large scale enterprise java solutions at SAP.
Java persistence - a Heretic's demonstration— The Java world is a thriving 'think tank' where the future of computing is created, a place of open-minded exploration. Nevertheless, there are taboos that the Java world seems reluctant to address. Weakly typed languages was one that has been confronted only recently, with JSR223. Object-oriented databases attract a lot of sympathy and precious little support. Everything that would stray too far away from the 'canon' of Java and JavaEE is, in reality, often considered with suspicion.
Guice— Put simply, Guice alleviates the need for factories and the use of new in your Java code. Think of Guice's @Inject as the new new. You will still need to write factories in some cases, but your code will not depend directly on them. Your code will be easier to change, unit test and reuse in other contexts.
JSR 303 - Bean Validation— Validating data is a common task that is copied in many different layers of an application, from the presentation tier to the persistence layer. Many times the exact same validations will have to be implemented in each separate validation framework, proving time consuming and error-prone. To prevent having to re-implement these validations at each layer, many developers will bundle validations directly into their classes, cluttering them with copied validation code that is, in fact, meta-data about the class itself.
Leading Open Source Middleware in Action— OW2 Members present and demonstrate leading OW2 projects working together to provide a full-featured open source information system based on Exo, XWiki, Bonita, JOnAS, SpagoBI, Talend, PEtALS, Orchestra and Spegic.
