Chaotic Java

Despite my intiial ciriticism about Java EE 5, and maybe because of it, I’ve decided to take a closer look at GlassFish, Sun’s open source implementation of JSR 244.

I’ve downloaded GlassFish Build 34, downloaded the latest daily build of NetBeans.next (Heehee.. DotNext…)

Next thing I followed the Hello World tutorial set out here. I must say, even though it’s a very short and non-satisfying tutorial, it sure does makes the point! If getting an EJB session bean is as easy as saying “I want this session bean” (aka @EJB MySessionBean bean), a lot of people’s lives are going to get much easier. Not to mention fulfilling the JSR 244′s goal:

The major theme for the next version of Java EE is ease of development. The clear message we’ve heard from Java EE vendors and users is that the Java EE platform must evolve quickly to support a wider range of developers, including less sophisticated developers.

As funny as that reads out, “not sophisticated” is a pretty vague term to define “not a rocket scientist”. It’s damn hard, in J2EE 1.4, to control all the configurations needed for adding a new bean, for retrieving it remotely, for getting properties in a JSF page.. I will continue to explore this further, as enterprise development is my business, after all.

I’ll follow this blog entry, which demonstrates Java EE 5 persistence, and then I will try building my own little enterprise project, which would remain secret for the time being (Ah, the suspense I’m building here!)

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