Java Enterprise Development - 2010 style

I woke up the other day and realized its 2010. When I was a kid, year 2000 was far, far away (well not quite, but hey when you are 7 years old 13 years is a long time). In 2001 we were supposed to be colonyzing the moon.  In 2010, Jupiter would be within our reach.  And there are reliable reports indicating that  9 years from now flying cars and aritificial life forms should be common place. I must admit: the kid within me feels kind of disappointed. On the other hand, I´ve recently started a couple of brand new enterprise applications in Java, from scratch. How does it feel like starting  a J2EE 6 aplication in 2010? Lets take a look from the point of view of a developer who just got started in the technology: You use the Java EE 6 Web Profile, and don´t need to pack your application into an EAR file. You code your domain model using a xml-less ORM fram framework (JPA). JPA actually makes sense and does what its supposed todo without fuss. You let your JPA implementation generate your database schema for you, which it does with surprising efficiency. You use modern, component-based  view frameworks (like Facelets or Wicket) , and get by writing little or no XML for defining navigation (remember struts-config.xml?) You use annotations everywhere (your JPA entities, your Session Beans, your Servlets) and even start to forget XML syntax Y...

Date: March, 01 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/jjviana/archive/2010/02/26/java-enterprise-development-2010-style

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