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What is coming down the Java pipeline?


By Alex Handy
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June 1, 2009 —  (Page 1 of 5)
With Java EE 6 just around the corner, many developers are beginning to wonder just what the new enterprise Java will offer them as a compelling reason to upgrade. Even more important is the question of what new tools will make Java EE 6 applications easier to write and manage. With much of the Java EE 6 update including fixes, updates and reworking of old standards, however, it would seem that much of Java EE 6 will not see new tooling for quite some time.

The Eclipse Foundation, for example, is not planning to push any new tooling for Java EE 6 into its summer Galileo release train. That might be just as well, as the only new specifications in the Java EE 6 stack are JAX-RS and Web Beans. Both of these specifications are basically new takes on old ideas: JAX-RS offering support for RESTful Web services, and Web Beans being a Web-focused version of Java beans.

But that's not to say that there aren't new ideas in Java tooling. Mike Rozlog, senior director of products for developer tools at Embarcadero Systems, said that his team is already researching methods of supporting JAX-RS.

“From a development standpoint, is there a big difference between JAX-WS and JAX-RS?” he asked. “One of the areas that we've been looking at is what would it take to be able to migrate from one to another. I have a service, now I want to make it a RESTful service. It's something we've been researching.”

That's the sort of tooling that Rozlog expects Java EE 6 to foster, though his team at Embarcadero has yet to begin work on such a tool within the Eclipse-based JBuilder.

Java six ways from Sunday
Java EE 6 isn't all REST and Web Beans, however. There are meaningful changes to the underlying structure of the Java EE stack. Chief among them is the introduction of profiles, slimmer, trimmer stacks of Java EE software that aim to address the common accusation that Java EE has become bloated and overburdened.


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06/02/2009 01:28:40 AM EST

Hi, Thanks for giving the initial glance on Java EE 6, while going through this article, I was just thinking few of the features such as (Dependency Injection) which is one of the pattern followed in Inversion of Control container module of Spring Framework. Somewhere I feel its in the lines of Spring Framework. Want to know is Java EE 6 provides more than Spring Framework or similar. Thanks Vish

IndiaVish


06/02/2009 10:34:38 PM EST

Ok so will this impact on the coding relating to the running of existing applets like the last update did, making my wirefusion applets dead again, I had to chase up for a bit of an edit I am forced in having to do in every wirefusion (java) related webpage in order to make the applets work, since I have WIREFUSION4 I cannot afford to buy even wf5 or anything now. So will this impact again to the point where I would have to abandon my wirefusion 3D projects all together since they would then nolonger work with the new java rules? I chose java since most people have java on and it meant no one had to buy or install any special software in order to view my creations to the fullest, which many people would actually disregard entirely and not look any further on my site for example as they would not be interested in having to wait for something to download and install or to even have extra software as in a special viewer in order to view just one site. This would enoy anyone with existing applets created automatically with software like Wirefusion from Demicron systems. I hope you concider that the idea to still enable older applets to still run, thanks.

AustraliaMajikstan


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