For my final TheServerSide Java Symposium breakout session for the day, I am attending “Lightweight Application Development with Java EE 6″ presented by Adam Bien.  Adam’s talk is in part an attempt to bring former J2EE developers (myself included) back to the table who may have been driven off by previous, heavy-weight J2EE implementations, such [...]

Scott’s recent post on EJB3 got me thinking about annotations as a “replacement” for XML. By now, we all know why shoving everything in XML isn’t the best of ideas.  I think shoving everything in Java code is bad too.  In particular deployment time concerns (like security) shouldn’t require a recompile. JEE 5 offers the [...]