New Article: Interview with Java Champion Adam Bien

I first met Java Champion Adam Bien at JavaOne, where we made a podcast titled Real World Java EE Patterns: Rethinking Best Practices. With Java EE 6 having just been approved, I thought now was a good time to reconnect with Adam, and get his view on the latest news in Java. So, last week we did an interview, which I've just published. Java Champion Adam Bien As I've said before, I learned a lot about the recent history of Java EE and EJBs in my talk with Adam at JavaOne. The rumors of Java EE being overly bloated and EJBs being heavyweight components are true only if you look at them with respect to their potential capabilities and potential complexity. That is, Java EE and EJBs have wide-ranging potential, rock-solid, thoroughly tested, enterprise level capabilities. But, enactment of the more complex capabilities is not required. At their most basic level, EJBs are lightweight, fully-scalable, components. Adam reiterated this point in our interview last week, when I asked him if EJBs are an option that Java developers could apply in meeting the "Multicore Challenge": EJBs are lightweight since 2006. They were always perfectly scalable on multicore systems because of their procedural nature. I actually never had any scalability problems with EJBs and was always surprised by their good performance... With the availability of the embeddable container in EJB 3.1 you could even run them on a desktop, or at lea...

Date: December, 18 2009
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2009/12/17/new-article-interview-java-champion-adam-bien

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