Wednesday, August 27, 2008

The Advantages of the Java EE 5 Platform

A Conversation with Distinguished Engineer Bill Shannon


Version 5 of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, formerly referred to as J2EE), has arrived. Its streamlined features offer added convenience, improved performance, and reduced development time, all of which enable developers to bring products to market faster.

To get an update on the Java EE 5 platform, we met with Java EE specification lead Bill Shannon, a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. Shannon has been with Sun since 1982 and previously worked on the JavaMail API, the HotJava Views product, the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), the Solaris Operating Environment, and all versions of SunOS. He graduated from Case Western Reserve University with an MS in Computer Engineering.


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Many of the highly anticipated features and technologies crawled into J2EE 5.0. Among them are the new EJB 3.0 and Java Persistence API, JSF, simplified component and service development. Evolving from the J2EE 1.4 orientation on Web Service for J2EE (JSR109) and related JSRs, J2SE 5.0 annotation definitely makes a difference on the ease of creation of services. If you still being scared away by the intricacy of SOAP,WSDL,UDDI,End Point configurations and etc etc, well, check out how Bill Shannon answered the following question:

Question: If you could speak to an audience of 1000 talented developers who were on the fence, and considering moving to Java EE 5, what would you say to them?



This is not your father's J2EE!

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