Interesting Post: Java EE 6 Overview on TSS
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 12:45PM I've been so engrossed in Spring and Grails that I have ignored Java EE and the movement to enhance and simplify it. Reza Rahman posted a great article on TheServerSide.COM on the coming changes to Java EE for version 6. JSR-316 (the Java EE 6 Specificaion JSR) defines the changes being made. Apparently there will be some 'pruned' libraries, such as JAX-RPC, EJB CMP, and some deployment and management JSRs.
Also new in the platform will be profiles. The first non-full profile deployed will be the 'Web profile', which sacrifices JMS and a few other APIs so that an enterprise app will run within a web container (including a "Lite" version of EJB, but not including JMS).
On first glance, the pending WebBeans 1.0 specification looks like a standardized web component framework, similar to the Seam Framework, and allows EJBs and associated JPA entities to exist and easily wire directly into the EL notation on the JSF page. Reza claims that WebBeans is inspired by Seam and some DI frameworks (Google and Spring) but that it is not a mirror of them. Should be interesting times once this is delivered for the Seam framework.
There is a call for participation at the bottom of the article, as well as a ton of well-placed links to more information in the JSR and other places.
Java EE, WebBeans, seam, spring in Interesting Posts