10 Good reasons to choose Java CAPS 6 or to migrate from 5.X!

jeudi juin 19, 2008

• Easy and quick installation with the new installer




• GUI wizard with I18N support


• Command Line Interface (CLI) console


• CLI in silent mode


• Pre-installation of most of the products : ESB, BPM, Visual Page Designer, Sun Adapters




• Large standards support, see my entry here


• Get a fantastic new shiny and open-source IDE for free with Netbeans 6.1




• A free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers. You get all the tools you need to create professional desktop, enterprise, web, and mobile applications with the Java language, C/C++, and Ruby. NetBeans IDE is easy to install and use straight out of the box and runs on many platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris


• The NetBeans IDE 6.1 release provides several new features and enhancements, such as rich JavaScript editing features, support for using the Spring web framework, and tighter MySQL integration.


•   This release also provides improved performance, especially faster startup (up to 40%), lower memory consumption and
  improved responsiveness while working with large projects.




• Multi-platform support (design time & runtime): Windows, Solaris, Linux, AIX, and Mac OS (New !)


• Backward Compatibility with 5.X projects




• just need to create a new Deployment Profile, build&deploy


• bi-directional reuse : so CAPS 5.x applications and JBI-based components can be used together




• New runtime




• GlassFish V2, open-source
  


• Sun Java MQ 4.1 (STCMS still supported)


• JavaEE 5 and interoperability with .NET via Metro




• JBI architecture support, to build an ecosystem with partners
  




• Service Engines to perform business logic and transformation services




• BPEL SE


• JavaEE SE


• more to come




• Binding Components : communication protocols to provide services external to the ESB environment.




• HTTP BC


• more to come !




• Interoperability between JavaEE and JBI components via  JBI Bridge and JavaEE SE


• High quality components adopted by the Open-ESB community    




• Improved build/deployment performance and tools




• Application Configuration Enhancements : app config properties can be set using the as admin console


• LDAP connectivity is defined in the runtime environment


• continuous integration (build+deployment) using Ant tasks both for repository-based & any other projects




• Management and Monitoring Improvements




• Common management Java API


• New scripting support (JSR 223-compliant) including Groovy, JRuby, Jython and more




• Design options : more code reuse




• Sub-Collaboration support with JCD to JCD calls


• OTD importer to reuse OTDs in EJBs
  

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Posted at 01:14AM juin 19, 2008 by Steve Pincaud in Sun
Tags: 6 caps features java migration new