Oracle GlassFish, or Why You Should Think About Open Source Again

Oracle's recent announcement about the discontinuation of commercial services for JEE's reference implementation GlassFish has caused many reactions in the community involved with JEE. The reactions reach from: Markus Eisele's rather pessimistic outlook on JEE's future in general Adam Bien's constructive (or cynical? With Adam Bien, you can never be sure) suggestions of moving GlassFish … Continue reading Oracle GlassFish, or Why You Should Think About Open Source Again

Annotatiomania™ 2.1

It's been a while since I have last ranted about annotations and the increasing Annotatiomania™ in the JEE ecosystem. I haven't been exposed to much JEE either, until yesterday, when I was confronted with an awesome talk by Adam Bien at ch-open, where I've also held a talk about jOOQ. JEE 7 ships with lots … Continue reading Annotatiomania™ 2.1

Java EE 7: JSRs That Make You Powerful

Tori Wieldt by Oracle has released an overview of all the goodies that are included in Java EE 7: https://blogs.oracle.com/java/entry/java_ee_7_the_details ... with a couple of video presentations: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL74xrT3oGQfCCLFJ2HCTR_iN5hV4penDz