(2940) An Overview of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6)

Technical long talk 50 min

Thursday, 2008-06-26, 12:00 - 12:50, Arena 3

Roberto Chinnici - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (speaker)

Topics

• Middleware
• Application servers

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Abstract

In this talk we describe the work currently under way to define the next version 
of the Java EE platform (Java EE 6).

In addition to offering many standard components, the the Java EE platform has 
fostered a vibrant community and marketplace for additional technologies, 
frameworks, and applications that work with the platform. Some of these provide 
facilities that are missing from the platform. Others provide alternatives to 
platform facilities.

A major theme for this release is to embrace and support those technologies as 
part of the overall Java EE landscape, while also continuing to simplify the 
platform to better target a wider range of developers.

The main features added in Java EE 6 are: extensibility, profiles and pruning.

Using these features it becomes possible to ship application server products 
that target very closely the actual needs of a development team, both by 
removing certain unneeded components and by adding new, desirable ones in a 
controlled way.

We expect that both old and new Java EE developers will find the new platform 
more accessible and more focused, with clear benefits in areas such as ease of 
development, availability of tools, integration with third-party and open source 
frameworks and libraries, variety of deployment options, reduced runtime 
footprint.