(6140) An Overview of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6)

Technical long talk 50 min

Tuesday, 2009-06-23, 11:00 - 11:50, Arena 5

Roberto Chinnici - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (speaker)

Topics

• Middleware
• Application servers

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Abstract

In this talk we present a comprehensive overview of the the next version of the 
Java EE platform, Java EE 6.

The goal of Java EE 6 is to make the platform smaller, more flexible and easier 
to use than ever before. To this end, Java EE 6 introduces the notion of 
"profiles" as well as the first, concrete profile, the Java EE 6 Web 
Profile. The ongoing modularization of the platform coincides with a drive for 
more modular application servers, resulting in a smaller footprint and more 
flexibility at deployment time.

On the ease of development front, Java EE 6 offers many improvements in the web 
and business tiers, with new versions of the Servlet, JSF, EJB, JPA and 
Connector technologies as well the addition of JAX-RS. In particular, we greatly 
enhanced the way that these technologies work together, for example by making 
the use of EJB components in web applications seamless. We also took care in 
making third-party libraries and frameworks easier to use and integrate with the 
rest of the platform, so that developers will be spending less time configuring 
those libraries and more time writing code.