Speaker: Adam Bien

Topic of presentation: Productive Java EE 6 - Rethinking Best Practices

Language: English

Adam Bien (blog.adam-bien.com) is consultant, author, Expert Group Member of the Java EE 6, EJB 3.1 and JPA 2.0 JSRs, Netbeans Dream Team Member and Java Champion. Adam has been working with Java and J2EE from the beginning (JDK 1.0 and Servlets/EJB 1.0) in many large scale projects. He has edited several books about Java and J2EE technology (”J2EE Patterns”, “J2EE HotSpots”, “Enterprise Java Frameworks”, “Struts”, “SOA Expert Knowledge”  and “Enterprise Architekturen”). Now he is involved as architect and developer in Java EE 5 projects and participates in several open source projects. He is working on his new O’Reilly book “Productive Java EE - Rethinking the Best Practices”

Abstract: J2EE systems tend to be over engineered, overblown and too complicated. Java EE 6 fixed most of the issues, killed some workarounds, but many questions like:

• Are DAOs dead?
• Do JSF really suck?
• Are anemic JPA-entities a best practice?
• Are XML deployment descriptors legacy?
• Are EJBs lightweight?
• How to test EJBs?
• Is layering an antipattern?
• Do we need factories?
• How to integrate with RESTFul services?
• Is it possible to deploy EJBs into a …WAR?
• Are “plain old web containers” dead?
• Services or Objects - what is the way to go?

still remain open. These and many other questions will be discussed interactively with …code. Beyond that I would introduce some upcoming EJB 3.1 / Java EE 6 features and best practices.