Tuesday February 21, 2006 links for 2006-02-22
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Fascinating pair of lists of words.
Posted by webmink
( Feb 21 2006, 05:23:16 PM PST )
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Hamilton Raving (but not mad)
Graham Hamilton is raving about Java EE 5, which came out for beta today. Graham has been saying for weeks now internally that this is the most important release of Java EE since it was invented, and I have to say I agree with him for two reasons:
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First, I was privileged to be a fly on the wall as Java EE was being conceived back in the mid 90s. I was working at IBM's laboratory in Hursley (just up the road from where I live now) on the brand new JTC management team, and sat in on many meetings where Ian Brackenbury distilled years of enterprise computing wisdom into contributions to the original design. What IBM, Sun and the other expert group contributors came up with changed the face of computing and is now the mainspring of the connected era.
However, it was a bit of an overwound main spring, as Graham expertly explains in his blog entry. Too verbose, complex to the point of obfuscation. This release uses the groundwork laid in Java SE 5 to enact enormous simplifications to enterprise Java programming. I think it's awesome.
- Second, this is the first release of Java EE to have direct input from the Glassfish community. That's not the first open source community to have contributed; the Apache Software Foundation was instrumental in the reform of the JCP around the turn of the millenium. But it's profited greatly from the work of the Glassfish community and shows the great synergy that comes from open standards and open source. Potential for some profoundly great work here.
So, welcome to Java EE 5. Graham's raving about it, but he's not mad - it truly is something to be excited about.
Posted by webmink
( Feb 21 2006, 04:49:08 PM PST )
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